Documentation fix regarding atan2
От | Andrew Maclean |
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Тема | Documentation fix regarding atan2 |
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Msg-id | e7ddbec60709041737h56f7e385xf3c622ca7b407a2b@mail.gmail.com обсуждение исходный текст |
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Re: Documentation fix regarding atan2
Re: Documentation fix regarding atan2 |
Список | pgsql-general |
In Table 9.4 of the documentation atan2 is described as follows:
| inverse tangent of
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I am sure it should read as:
| inverse tangent of y/x |
This looks to be the standard C++/c atan2(y,x) function.
You can easily test this:
If y = 2, x = 1, then degrees(atan(y/x)) =63.4 but if we proceed according to the documentation; degrees(atan2(x,y))=degrees(atan2(1,2))=25.6 which is not the same as degrees(atan(y/x)).
So it must be degrees(atan2(y,x))=degrees(atan2(2,1))=63.4.
Thanks
Andrew
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