Big thanks to everyone for your input.
Have a very nice day.
Chris.
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Sent: Thursday, June 21, 2001 6:43 PM
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Subject: inverse cosine
Inverse cosine isn't
Hi TIA.
the folowing code will do the calculation for you. please put the
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in your script.
Ralf.
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> Is there an inverse cosine function in lingo?
> I've looked and didn't find it.
>
> Anyone enough of a mathwiz to tell me how to calculate it if there's no such
> function available?
Danny Kodicek posted this to the dir-GameL list a while back...
> asin(x)=atan(x/sqrt(1-x*x))
> acos(x)=atan(s
Chris,
Here's your Lingo solution followed by a trig lesson as to how it was derived...
--
-- The Lingo Lesson --
--
--
on arcCos (thisValue)
-- compute appropriate theta value using
-- the arctan function
numerator = sqrt(1 - (thisValue * thisValue
