atan2 documentation bugs for 7.3 and 7.2

Started by Bruno Wolff IIIover 23 years ago2 messagesbugs
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#1Bruno Wolff III
bruno@wolff.to

In the section on mathematical functions the following is given for atan2:
atan2(x, y) inverse tangent of a/x

I believe the correct version should either be:
atan2(y, x) inverse tangent of y/x
or
atan2(x, y) inverse tangent of x/y

I beleive the documentation was also wrong for 7.2 where it was:
atan2(x, y) inverse tangent of y/x

The postgres functions seems to be the same as glibc function of the same
name when has the following man information:
double atan2(double y, double x);

DESCRIPTION
The atan2() function calculates the arc tangent of the two
variables x and y. It is similar to calculating the arc
tangent of y / x, except that the signs of both arguments
are used to determine the quadrant of the result.

#2Bruce Momjian
bruce@momjian.us
In reply to: Bruno Wolff III (#1)
Re: atan2 documentation bugs for 7.3 and 7.2

OK, patch applied.

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Bruno Wolff III wrote:

In the section on mathematical functions the following is given for atan2:
atan2(x, y) inverse tangent of a/x

I believe the correct version should either be:
atan2(y, x) inverse tangent of y/x
or
atan2(x, y) inverse tangent of x/y

I beleive the documentation was also wrong for 7.2 where it was:
atan2(x, y) inverse tangent of y/x

The postgres functions seems to be the same as glibc function of the same
name when has the following man information:
double atan2(double y, double x);

DESCRIPTION
The atan2() function calculates the arc tangent of the two
variables x and y. It is similar to calculating the arc
tangent of y / x, except that the signs of both arguments
are used to determine the quadrant of the result.

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