modulo 2 pi?

John W. Eaton jwe at octave.org
Tue Jan 27 22:49:30 CST 2009


On 27-Jan-2009, Johan Kullstam wrote:

| Looking at the help information
| ~:> help arg
|  -- Mapping Function:  arg (Z)
|  -- Mapping Function:  angle (Z)
|      Compute the argument of Z, defined as THETA = `atan (Y/X)'.  in
|      radians.
| 
| The above is wrong as it should be atan2(Y,X) not atan(Y/X).  How to
| file a bug against the documentation?

Same as any other bug report.

But in this case, I happened to notice the message here, so I fixed
it.

jwe


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