[fpc-pascal]Error on arctan2 documentation
Manuel Ritto Correa
mcorrea at civil.ist.utl.pt
Fri Nov 23 15:49:45 CET 2001
On FreePascal the following insctruction:
Writeln(arctan(2),arctan2(2,1),arctan2(1,2));
Yields:
1.1071487177940905E+0000 1.1071487177940905E+0000
4.6364760900080612E-0001
I believe this is in contradiction with the docomentation where it is
said that
arctan2(x,y) calculates atan(y/x)
It would be OK if the documentation stated
arctan2(y,x) calculates atan(y/x)
^^^
Since I am not receiving any messages from the FPC mailing list, and I
know that some developpers of FPC read this newsgroup, I am posting it
here.
By the way: I find Free Pascal great!!
Manuel Correa
P.S. I've posted this earlier to comp.lang.pascal.misc, because I was
having problems with this mailing list. But this is the right place to
post, so, there you have it!
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