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6.23.10 Transforming arcsin into arctan: asin2atan

The asin2atan command transforms any asins in an expression to atans, using the identity

arcsin(x) = arctan⎛
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⎜
⎜
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⎝
x
√
1−x2
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⎟
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⎠


Example.
Input:

asin2atan(asin(x))

Output:

arctan⎛
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⎜
⎜
⎜
⎝
x
√
1−x2
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⎟
⎟
⎟
⎟
⎠

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