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6.23.12 Transforming arctan into arccos: atan2acos

The atan2acos command transforms any atans in an expression to acoss, using the identity

arctan(x) = 
π
2
 − arcsin⎛
⎜
⎜
⎜
⎜
⎝
x
√
1+x2
⎞
⎟
⎟
⎟
⎟
⎠


Example.
Input:

atan2acos(atan(x))

Output:

π 
2
−arccos⎛
⎜
⎜
⎜
⎜
⎝
x
√
1+x2
⎞
⎟
⎟
⎟
⎟
⎠

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