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10.2.12 Transforming arctan into arccos

The atan2acos command transforms any arc tangents in an expression to arc cosines by using the identity

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

Example

atan2acos(atan(x))
π
2
−arccos ⎛
⎜
⎜
⎜
⎜
⎝
x
√
1+x2
⎞
⎟
⎟
⎟
⎟
⎠
          

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