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  • noun Abbreviation of arctangent.

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  • noun the inverse function of the tangent; the angle that has a tangent equal to a given number

Etymologies

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arc- +‎ tan

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Examples

  • "arctan"; opchTbl [6]. code = 7; opchTbl [6]. grade =

    博客园首页 2009

  • I was once told that the gradient on a road sign is not arctan but rather arcsin - i.e. 10% is 1m up for 10m on the slope.

    Which idiot came up with percentage-based gradient signs Brian Clegg 2010

  • The Smallest Pisot-Vijayaraghavan number. arctan (1/2)/Pi, to 1024 digits. product (1+1/n**3, n = 1. .infinity) exp (Pi*sqrt (163)), the Ramanujan number

    Miscellaneous Mathematical Constants Simon Plouffe

  • I fitted a simple arctan function through their water storage curve and added that to Stefan's already extended script.

    RealClimate 2010

  • I fitted a simple arctan function through their water storage curve and added that to Stefan's already extended script.

    RealClimate Tim Joslin 2010

  • Calculate the equivalent 35mm film focal length from the AOV AOV = arctan (28.62/72) * 2

    Netvouz - new bookmarks thgood 2010

  • I fitted a simple arctan function through their water storage curve and added that to Stefan's already extended script.

    RealClimate Tim Joslin 2010

  • I fitted a simple arctan function through their water storage curve and added that to Stefan's already extended script.

    RealClimate Tim Joslin 2010

  • And, he apparently is well educated, as he knows the number pi and trigonometrical functions like sin, cos, tan, arcsin, arccos, arctan and the functions sqrt and exp.

    Linux Journal - The Original Magazine of the Linux Community 2009

  • In order to convert the coordinates of a point (x0, y0) in Cartesian coordinates to a point (0, r0) in NPC, use these formulas: 0 ¼ arctan ðx0 = y0 Þ if y0 >

    Recently Uploaded Slideshows 2009

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