Matlab and Fortran both use the convention atan2(x,y) to mean the polar angle of the Cartesian point (x,y). Excel uses the convention atan2(y,x). I think it would be better for Julia to be consistent with Matlab and Fortran, rather than Excel.
My 2cents, --Peter On Friday, November 7, 2014 1:11:35 PM UTC-8, Ivar Nesje wrote: > > > > kl. 22:01:23 UTC+1 fredag 7. november 2014 skrev Patrick O'Leary følgende: >> >> On Friday, November 7, 2014 2:53:28 PM UTC-6, Ivar Nesje wrote: >>> >>> If you are referring to the a and b in the Float16 method, that is an >>> inconsistency, not a error. >>> >> >> And you can do the same thing to swap x and y in the definitions in >> math.jl. >> > > How could I not see that. That's definitely a more important issue, but it > seems like the documentation is correct about the argument order. Swapping > them in the libm wrapper would fix that. >
