Documentation fix regarding atan2

From: "Andrew Maclean" <andrew(dot)amaclean(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Documentation fix regarding atan2
Date: 2007-09-05 00:37:18
Message-ID: e7ddbec60709041737h56f7e385xf3c622ca7b407a2b@mail.gmail.com
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In Table 9.4 of the documentation atan2 is described as follows:
atan2(*x*, *y*) inverse tangent of *x*/*y*

I am sure it should read as:
atan2(*y*, x) inverse tangent of y/x

This looks to be the standard C++/c atan2(y,x) function.

You can easily test this:
If y = 2, x = 1, then degrees(atan(y/x)) =63.4 but if we proceed according
to the documentation; degrees(atan2(x,y))=degrees(atan2(1,2))=25.6 which is
not the same as degrees(atan(y/x)).
So it must be degrees(atan2(y,x))=degrees(atan2(2,1))=63.4.

Thanks
Andrew

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