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Landon Curt Noll ab95e47c0a fix and improve trigonometric help files
The trigonometric file files have had several bug fixed.

The EXAMPLE sections of trigonometric file have
been made consistent.

Added these new help files in anticipation of
the code for these new (i.e., to be written) builtin functions:

    hacovercos hacoversin havercos haversin
    ahacovercos ahacoversin ahavercos ahaversin
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NAME
asec - inverse trigonometric secant
SYNOPSIS
asec(x [,eps])
TYPES
x number (real or complex)
eps 0 < real < 1, defaults to epsilon()
return real
DESCRIPTION
Returns the inverse trigonometric secant of x to a multiple of eps with error less in
absolute value than .75 * eps.
This function is sometimes called arcsec.
EXAMPLE
; print asec(0), asec(0.5), asec(1)
Error 10453 1.31695789692481670863i 0
; print asec(-0.5), asec(-1)
3.14159265358979323846-1.31695789692481670863i 3.14159265358979323846
; print asec(.5, 1e-5), asec(.5, 1e-10), asec(.5, 1e-15), asec(.5, 1e-20)
1.31695i 1.316957897i 1.316957896924816i 1.31695789692481670863i
; print asec(5), asec(5i)
1.36943840600456582778 1.57079632679489661923+0.19869011034924140647i
; print asec(5+5i)
1.4711326239351014592+0.10033029811220500594i
; pi = pi(1e-20)
; print asec(pi/6), asec(pi/3)
1.26327680856656556836i 0.30137360974529145454
; print asec(4*pi/3)
1.32973601406082299099
LIMITS
0 < eps < 1
LINK LIBRARY
NUMBER *qasec(NUMBER *x, NUMBER *eps)
COMPLEX *c_asec(COMPLEX *c, NUMBER *epsilon)
SEE ALSO
sin, cos, tan, cot, sec, csc
asin, acos, atan, acot, acsc
versin, coversin, vercos, covercos
aversin, acoversin, avercos, acovercos
haversin, hacoversin, havercos, hacovercos
ahaversin, hacoversin, havercos, ahacovercos
epsilon
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