Can math.atan2 return INF?
Pierre-Alain Dorange
pdorange at pas-de-pub-merci.mac.com
Wed Jun 22 13:18:02 EDT 2016
Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet at bsb.me.uk> wrote:
> >>> math.atan2(INF, INF)
> 0.7853981633974483
>
> I would have expected NaN since atan2(INF, INF) could be thought of as
> the limit of atan2(x, y) which could be any value in the range. And I'd
> have guessed atan2(0, 0) would have been NaN too but
i'm not a math expert, but the limit of atan2 would be 45°, so pi/4
radians (0,7854).
As x,y are coordinates, the both infinite would tend toward 45°.
x only infinite would be 0° (0 radians)
y only infinite woudl be 180° (pi/2 radians)
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