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NAME
       Math::Trig - trigonometric functions

SYNOPSIS
               use Math::Trig;

               $x = tan(0.9);
               $y = acos(3.7);
               $z = asin(2.4);

               $halfpi = pi/2;

               $rad = deg2rad(120);


DESCRIPTION
       Math::Trig defines many trigonometric functions not
       defined by the core Perl which defines only the sin() and
       cos().  The constant pi is also defined as are a few
       convenience functions for angle conversions.

TRIGONOMETRIC FUNCTIONS
       The tangent

       tan

       The cofunctions of the sine, cosine, and tangent
       (cosec/csc and cotan/cot are aliases)

       csc, cosec, sec, sec, cot, cotan

       The arcus (also known as the inverse) functions of the
       sine, cosine, and tangent

       asin, acos, atan

       The principal value of the arc tangent of y/x

       atan2(y, x)

       The arcus cofunctions of the sine, cosine, and tangent
       (acosec/acsc and acotan/acot are aliases)

       acsc, acosec, asec, acot, acotan

       The hyperbolic sine, cosine, and tangent

       sinh, cosh, tanh

       The cofunctions of the hyperbolic sine, cosine, and
       tangent (cosech/csch and cotanh/coth are aliases)

       csch, cosech, sech, coth, cotanh




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       The arcus (also known as the inverse) functions of the
       hyperbolic sine, cosine, and tangent

       asinh, acosh, atanh

       The arcus cofunctions of the hyperbolic sine, cosine, and
       tangent (acsch/acosech and acoth/acotanh are aliases)

       acsch, acosech, asech, acoth, acotanh

       The trigonometric constant pi is also defined.

       $pi2 = 2 * pi;

       ERRORS DUE TO DIVISION BY ZERO

       The following functions

               acoth
               acsc
               acsch
               asec
               asech
               atanh
               cot
               coth
               csc
               csch
               sec
               sech
               tan
               tanh

       cannot be computed for all arguments because that would
       mean dividing by zero or taking logarithm of zero. These
       situations cause fatal runtime errors looking like this

               cot(0): Division by zero.
               (Because in the definition of cot(0), the divisor sin(0) is 0)
               Died at ...

       or

               atanh(-1): Logarithm of zero.
               Died at...

       For the csc, cot, asec, acsc, acot, csch, coth, asech,
       acsch, the argument cannot be 0 (zero).  For the atanh,
       acoth, the argument cannot be 1 (one).  For the atanh,
       acoth, the argument cannot be -1 (minus one).  For the
       tan, sec, tanh, sech, the argument cannot be pi/2 + k *
       pi, where k is any integer.





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       SIMPLE (REAL) ARGUMENTS, COMPLEX RESULTS

       Please note that some of the trigonometric functions can
       break out from the real axis into the complex plane. For
       example asin(2) has no definition for plain real numbers
       but it has definition for complex numbers.

       In Perl terms this means that supplying the usual Perl
       numbers (also known as scalars, please see the perldata
       manpage) as input for the trigonometric functions might
       produce as output results that no more are simple real
       numbers: instead they are complex numbers.

       The Math::Trig handles this by using the Math::Complex
       package which knows how to handle complex numbers, please
       see the Math::Complex manpage for more information. In
       practice you need not to worry about getting complex
       numbers as results because the Math::Complex takes care of
       details like for example how to display complex numbers.
       For example:

               print asin(2), "\n";

       should produce something like this (take or leave few last decimals):

               1.5707963267949-1.31695789692482i

       That is, a complex number with the real part of
       approximately 1.571 and the imaginary part of
       approximately -1.317.

PLANE ANGLE CONVERSIONS
       (Plane, 2-dimensional) angles may be converted with the
       following functions.

               $radians  = deg2rad($degrees);
               $radians  = grad2rad($gradians);

               $degrees  = rad2deg($radians);
               $degrees  = grad2deg($gradians);

               $gradians = deg2grad($degrees);
               $gradians = rad2grad($radians);

       The full circle is 2 pi radians or 360 degrees or 400
       gradians.

RADIAL COORDINATE CONVERSIONS
       Radial coordinate systems are the spherical and the
       cylindrical systems, explained shortly in more detail.

       You can import radial coordinate conversion functions by
       using the :radial tag:




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           use Math::Trig ':radial';

           ($rho, $theta, $z)     = cartesian_to_cylindrical($x, $y, $z);
           ($rho, $theta, $phi)   = cartesian_to_spherical($x, $y, $z);
           ($x, $y, $z)           = cylindrical_to_cartesian($rho, $theta, $z);
           ($rho_s, $theta, $phi) = cylindrical_to_spherical($rho_c, $theta, $z);
           ($x, $y, $z)           = spherical_to_cartesian($rho, $theta, $phi);
           ($rho_c, $theta, $z)   = spherical_to_cylindrical($rho_s, $theta, $phi);

       All angles are in radians.

       COORDINATE SYSTEMS

       Cartesian coordinates are the usual rectangular (x, y,
       z)-coordinates.

       Spherical coordinates, (rho, theta, pi), are three-
       dimensional coordinates which define a point in three-
       dimensional space.  They are based on a sphere surface.
       The radius of the sphere is rho, also known as the radial
       coordinate.  The angle in the xy-plane (around the z-axis)
       is theta, also known as the azimuthal coordinate.  The
       angle from the z-axis is phi, also known as the polar
       coordinate.  The `North Pole' is therefore 0, 0, rho, and
       the `Bay of Guinea' (think of the missing big chunk of
       Africa) 0, pi/2, rho.  In geographical terms phi is
       latitude (northward positive, southward negative) and
       theta is longitude (eastward positive, westward negative).

       BEWARE: some texts define theta and phi the other way
       round, some texts define the phi to start from the
       horizontal plane, some texts use r in place of rho.

       Cylindrical coordinates, (rho, theta, z), are three-
       dimensional coordinates which define a point in three-
       dimensional space.  They are based on a cylinder surface.
       The radius of the cylinder is rho, also known as the
       radial coordinate.  The angle in the xy-plane (around the
       z-axis) is theta, also known as the azimuthal coordinate.
       The third coordinate is the z, pointing up from the
       theta-plane.

       3-D ANGLE CONVERSIONS

       Conversions to and from spherical and cylindrical
       coordinates are available.  Please notice that the
       conversions are not necessarily reversible because of the
       equalities like pi angles being equal to -pi angles.

       cartesian_to_cylindrical

                   ($rho, $theta, $z) = cartesian_to_cylindrical($x, $y, $z);





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       cartesian_to_spherical

                   ($rho, $theta, $phi) = cartesian_to_spherical($x, $y, $z);


       cylindrical_to_cartesian

                   ($x, $y, $z) = cylindrical_to_cartesian($rho, $theta, $z);


       cylindrical_to_spherical

                   ($rho_s, $theta, $phi) = cylindrical_to_spherical($rho_c, $theta, $z);

           Notice that when $z is not 0 $rho_s is not equal to
           $rho_c.

       spherical_to_cartesian

                   ($x, $y, $z) = spherical_to_cartesian($rho, $theta, $phi);


       spherical_to_cylindrical

                   ($rho_c, $theta, $z) = spherical_to_cylindrical($rho_s, $theta, $phi);

           Notice that when $z is not 0 $rho_c is not equal to
           $rho_s.

GREAT CIRCLE DISTANCES
       You can compute spherical distances, called great circle
       distances, by importing the great_circle_distance
       function:

               use Math::Trig 'great_circle_distance'

         $distance = great_circle_distance($theta0, $phi0, $theta1, $phi1, [, $rho]);

       The great circle distance is the shortest distance between
       two points on a sphere.  The distance is in $rho units.
       The $rho is optional, it defaults to 1 (the unit sphere),
       therefore the distance defaults to radians.

       If you think geographically the theta are longitudes: zero
       at the Greenwhich meridian, eastward positive, westward
       negative--and the phi are latitudes: zero at the North
       Pole, northward positive, southward negative.  NOTE: this
       formula thinks in mathematics, not geographically: the phi
       zero is at the North Pole, not at the Equator on the west
       coast of Africa (Bay of Guinea).  You need to subtract
       your geographical coordinates from pi/2 (also known as 90
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         $distance = great_circle_distance($lon0, pi/2 - $lat0,
                                           $lon1, pi/2 - $lat1, $rho);


EXAMPLES
       To calculate the distance between London (51.3N 0.5W) and
       Tokyo (35.7N 139.8E) in kilometers:

               use Math::Trig qw(great_circle_distance deg2rad);

               # Notice the 90 - latitude: phi zero is at the North Pole.
               @L = (deg2rad(-0.5), deg2rad(90 - 51.3));
               @T = (deg2rad(139.8),deg2rad(90 - 35.7));

               $km = great_circle_distance(@L, @T, 6378);

       The answer may be off by few percentages because of the
       irregular (slightly aspherical) form of the Earth.

BUGS
       Saying use Math::Trig; exports many mathematical routines
       in the caller environment and even overrides some (sin,
       cos).  This is construed as a feature by the Authors,
       actually... ;-)

       The code is not optimized for speed, especially because we
       use Math::Complex and thus go quite near complex numbers
       while doing the computations even when the arguments are
       not. This, however, cannot be completely avoided if we
       want things like asin(2) to give an answer instead of
       giving a fatal runtime error.

AUTHORS
       Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi> and Raphael Manfredi
       <Raphael_Manfredi@grenoble.hp.com>.






















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