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Landon Curt Noll 26fc394089 add trigonometric chord of a unit circle functions
Improve builtin function strings, as printed by help builtin,
that use an optional accuracy (epsilon) arg by adding a comma.

Added the following new trigonometric functions:

    crd(x [,eps])		trigonometric chord of a unit circle
    acrd(x [,eps])		inverse trigonometric chord of a unit circle
2023-10-02 22:43:33 -07:00

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NAME
acrd - inverse trigonometric chord of a unit circle
SYNOPSIS
acrd(x [,eps])
TYPES
x number (real or complex)
eps 0 < real < 1, defaults to epsilon()
return number
DESCRIPTION
Calculate angle of unit circle chord of length x to a multiple of eps with error less in
absolute value than .75 * eps.
A chord of a circle is a straight line segment whose endpoints lie on a arc of a circle.
A chord extended infinitely on both directions into a line would produce a secant line.
This function is sometimes called chord, is equivalent to:
acrd(x) = 2 * asin(x / 2)
EXAMPLE
; print acrd(1/2), acrd(5/7), acrd(42/7)
0.50536051028415730696 0.73041444258073348124 3.14159265358979323846-3.52549434807817210092i
; print acrd(1, 1e-5), acrd(1, 1e-10), acrd(1, 1e-15), acrd(1, 1e-20)
1.0472 1.0471975512 1.047197551196598 1.04719755119659774616
; print acrd(2 + 3i, 1e-5), acrd(2 + 3i, 1e-10)
1.0472+2.63392i 1.0471975512+2.6339157938i
; pi = pi(1e-20)
; print acrd(pi/6), acrd(pi/2), acrd(pi)
0.52977229404847186194 1.80667822153302569472 3.14159265358979323846-2.04645495709510115864i
LIMITS
0 < eps < 1
LINK LIBRARY
NUMBER *qacrd(NUMBER *x, NUMBER *eps)
COMPLEX *c_acrd(COMPLEX *x, NUMBER *eps)
SEE ALSO
sin, cos, tan, cot, sec, csc
asin, acos, atan, acot, asec, acsc
coversin, vercos, covercos
aversin, acoversin, avercos, acovercos
haversin, hacoversin, havercos, hacovercos
ahaversin, hacoversin, havercos, ahacovercos
exsec, aexsec, excsc, aexcsc
crd
epsilon
EXTERNAL RESOURCES
For general information on trigonometric functions, see:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trigonometric_functions#Unit-circle_definitions
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Versine
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exsecant
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inverse_trigonometric_functions
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chord_(geometry)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secant_line
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hartley_transform#cas
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cis_(mathematics)
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