Re: Why does atan2 take 2 arguments?

[Peter Scott]

At 05:22 PM 10/17/00 -0400, Jorg Ziefle wrote:
>I wondered since quite a time why atan2 takes 2 arguments.
>
>This doesn't make much sense to me since you can always calculate you
>own "slope" and pass it to atan2.
>
>If there is some issue in this that I oversaw, could anybody please
>explain it. If not, I'd like to suggest to skip the 2nd argument.

Consider how to generate the right result when the slope is infinite.

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Peter Scott
Pacific Systems Design Technologies