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NAME
ltol - "leg to leg", third side of a right-angled triangle with
unit hypotenuse, given one other side
SYNOPSIS
ltol(x, [,eps])
TYPES
x real
eps nonzero real
return real
DESCRIPTION
Returns sqrt(1 - x^2) to the nearest multiple of eps.
The default value for eps is epsilon().
EXAMPLE
> print ltol(0.4, 1e-6), hypot(0.5, 1e-6)
.6 .866025
LIMITS
abs(x) <= 1
LINK LIBRARY
NUMBER *qlegtoleg(NUMBER *q1, *epsilon, BOOL wantneg)
SEE ALSO
hypot
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