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by dunbarx » Tue May 27, 2014 3:31 am
Figuring I knew what I was talking about, I was going to say "And here is a good opportunity to use the dictionary to its fullest extent. Check out the "see also..." portion under, say, "tan", a word which you might have found yourself.
But unlike most entries, which usually do have a richly populated list of related words, all the trig function "see also's" are impoverished. Why, the "atan" function does not even mention the "atan2" function, which might be just the ticket for someone trying to find the angle in quadrant three.
This was disconcerting indeed. Good thing I looked first. I think "sin" should at least mention "asin".
Craig Newman