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ATAN2(3)		   BSD Programmer's Manual		      ATAN2(3)

NAME
     atan2, atan2f - arc tangent function of two variables

LIBRARY
     libm

SYNOPSIS
     #include <math.h>

     double
     atan2(double y, double x);

     float
     atan2f(float y, float x);

DESCRIPTION
     The atan2() and atan2f() functions compute the principal value of the arc
     tangent of y/x, using the signs of both arguments to determine the qua-
     drant of the return value.

RETURN VALUES
     The atan2() function, if successful, returns the arc tangent of y/x in
     the range [-pi, +pi] radians. If both x and y are zero, the global vari-
     able errno is set to EDOM. On the VAX:

     atan2(y, x):=	  atan(y/x)	       if x > 0,
			  sign(y)*(pi - atan(|y/x|))	     if x < 0,
			  0		       if x = y = 0, or
			  sign(y)*pi/2	       if x = 0 y.

NOTES
     The function atan2() defines "if x > 0," atan2(0, 0) = 0 on a VAX despite
     that previously atan2(0, 0) may have generated an error message. The rea-
     sons for assigning a value to atan2(0, 0) are these:

	   1.	Programs that test arguments to avoid computing atan2(0, 0)
		must be indifferent to its value. Programs that require it to
		be invalid are vulnerable to diverse reactions to that invali-
		dity on diverse computer systems.

	   2.	The atan2() function is used mostly to convert from rectangu-
		lar (x,y) to polar (r,theta) coordinates that must satisfy x =
		r*cos theta and y = r*sin theta. These equations are satisfied
		when (x=0,y=0) is mapped to (r=0,theta=0) on a VAX. In gen-
		eral, conversions to polar coordinates should be computed
		thus:

		      r	   := hypot(x,y);  ... := sqrt(x*x+y*y)
		      theta	:= atan2(y,x).

	   3.	The foregoing formulas need not be altered to cope in a rea-
		sonable way with signed zeros and infinities on a machine that
		conforms to IEEE 754; the versions of hypot(3) and atan2()
		provided for such a machine are designed to handle all cases.
		That is why atan2(_0, -0) = _pi for instance. In general the
		formulas above are equivalent to these:

		      r := sqrt(x*x+y*y); if r = 0 then x := copysign(1,x);

SEE ALSO
     acos(3), asin(3), atan(3), cos(3), cosh(3), math(3), sin(3), sinh(3),
     tan(3), tanh(3)

STANDARDS
     The atan2() function conforms to ANSI X3.159-1989 ("ANSI C").

MirOS BSD #10-current		 May 2, 1991				     1
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