If you were talking to an idiot?
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| How would you teach them what and how to use atan and atan2? If you're wondering which idiot you would be talking to then that's me :) |
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| Do you already have some knowledge on trigonometry in general? Otherwise we need to teach you sin and cos first because tan is a function that uses both of them. |
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| Do you already have some knowledge on trigonometry in general? No, well, don't know. :/ Teach away :) |
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| This is a quite good page for trigonometry and what their use is: http://aleph0.clarku.edu/~djoyce/java/trig/ On atan / atan2 : atan is the normal arcus tangens while atan2 is a version that normally only appears in programming languages. it takes the y and x components seperately instead of the result of y/x |
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