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<li><a href="#name">NAME</a></li>
	<li><a href="#synopsis">SYNOPSIS</a></li>
	<li><a href="#description">DESCRIPTION</a></li>
	<li><a href="#trigonometric_functions">TRIGONOMETRIC FUNCTIONS</a></li>
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<li><a href="#errors_due_to_division_by_zero">ERRORS DUE TO DIVISION BY ZERO</a></li>
		<li><a href="#simple__real__arguments__complex_results">SIMPLE (REAL) ARGUMENTS, COMPLEX RESULTS</a></li>
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<li><a href="#plane_angle_conversions">PLANE ANGLE CONVERSIONS</a></li>
	<li><a href="#radial_coordinate_conversions">RADIAL COORDINATE CONVERSIONS</a></li>
	<ul>

<li><a href="#coordinate_systems">COORDINATE SYSTEMS</a></li>
		<li><a href="#3_d_angle_conversions">3-D ANGLE CONVERSIONS</a></li>
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<li><a href="#great_circle_distances_and_directions">GREAT CIRCLE DISTANCES AND DIRECTIONS</a></li>
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<li><a href="#great_circle_distance">great_circle_distance</a></li>
		<li><a href="#great_circle_direction">great_circle_direction</a></li>
		<li><a href="#great_circle_bearing">great_circle_bearing</a></li>
		<li><a href="#great_circle_destination">great_circle_destination</a></li>
		<li><a href="#great_circle_midpoint">great_circle_midpoint</a></li>
		<li><a href="#great_circle_waypoint">great_circle_waypoint</a></li>
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<li><a href="#examples">EXAMPLES</a></li>
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<li><a href="#caveat_for_great_circle_formulas">CAVEAT FOR GREAT CIRCLE FORMULAS</a></li>
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<li><a href="#bugs">BUGS</a></li>
	<li><a href="#authors">AUTHORS</a></li>
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<h1><a name="name">NAME</a></h1>
Math::Trig - trigonometric functions


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<h1><a name="synopsis">SYNOPSIS</a></h1>
<pre>
 use Math::Trig;</pre>
<pre>
 $x = tan(0.9);
 $y = acos(3.7);
 $z = asin(2.4);</pre>
<pre>
 $halfpi = pi/2;</pre>
<pre>
 $rad = deg2rad(120);</pre>
<pre>
 # Import constants pi2, pip2, pip4 (2*pi, pi/2, pi/4).
 use Math::Trig ':pi';</pre>
<pre>
 # Import the conversions between cartesian/spherical/cylindrical.
 use Math::Trig ':radial';</pre>
<pre>
 # Import the great circle formulas.
 use Math::Trig ':great_circle';</pre>


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<h1><a name="description">DESCRIPTION</a></h1>
<code>Math::Trig</code> defines many trigonometric functions not defined by the
core Perl which defines only the <a href="file://C|\ADE\aime_smenon_perl_090715\perl\html/pod/perlfunc.html#sin"><code>sin()</code></a> and <a href="file://C|\ADE\aime_smenon_perl_090715\perl\html/pod/perlfunc.html#cos"><code>cos()</code></a>. The constant
pi is also defined as are a few convenience functions for angle
conversions, and great circle formulas for spherical movement.


<hr />
<h1><a name="trigonometric_functions">TRIGONOMETRIC FUNCTIONS</a></h1>
The tangent
<dl>
<dt><a name="tan" class="item">tan</a>

</dl>
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). Note that atan2(0, 0) is not well-defined.
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
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 and some of handy multiples
of it are also defined.
pi, pi2, pi4, pip2, pip4


<h2><a name="errors_due_to_division_by_zero">ERRORS DUE TO DIVISION BY ZERO</a></h2>
The following functions
<pre>
 acoth
 acsc
 acsch
 asec
 asech
 atanh
 cot
 coth
 csc
 csch
 sec
 sech
 tan
 tanh</pre>
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
<pre>
 cot(0): Division by zero.
 (Because in the definition of cot(0), the divisor sin(0) is 0)
 Died at ...</pre>
or
<pre>
 atanh(-1): Logarithm of zero.
 Died at...</pre>
For the <code>csc</code>, <code>cot</code>, <code>asec</code>, <code>acsc</code>, <code>acot</code>, <code>csch</code>, <code>coth</code>,
<code>asech</code>, <code>acsch</code>, the argument cannot be <code>0</code> (zero). For the
<code>atanh</code>, <code>acoth</code>, the argument cannot be <code>1</code> (one). For the
<code>atanh</code>, <code>acoth</code>, the argument cannot be <code>-1</code> (minus one). For the
<a href="#tan"><code>tan</code></a>, <code>sec</code>, <code>tanh</code>, <code>sech</code>, the argument cannot be pi/2 + k *
pi, where k is any integer.
Note that atan2(0, 0) is not well-defined.


<h2><a name="simple__real__arguments__complex_results">SIMPLE (REAL) ARGUMENTS, COMPLEX RESULTS</a></h2>
Please note that some of the trigonometric functions can break out
from the real axis into the complex plane. For example
<code>asin(2)</code> 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 <a href="file://C|\ADE\aime_smenon_perl_090715\perl\html/pod/perldata.html">the perldata manpage</a>) as input for the
trigonometric functions might produce as output results that no more
are simple real numbers: instead they are complex numbers.
The <code>Math::Trig</code> handles this by using the <code>Math::Complex</code> package
which knows how to handle complex numbers, please see <a href="file://C|\ADE\aime_smenon_perl_090715\perl\html/lib/Math/Complex.html">the Math::Complex manpage</a>
for more information. In practice you need not to worry about getting
complex numbers as results because the <code>Math::Complex</code> takes care of
details like for example how to display complex numbers. For example:
<pre>
 print asin(2), &quot;\n&quot;;</pre>
should produce something like this (take or leave few last decimals):
<pre>
 1.5707963267949-1.31695789692482i</pre>
That is, a complex number with the real part of approximately <code>1.571</code>
and the imaginary part of approximately <code>-1.317</code>.


<hr />
<h1><a name="plane_angle_conversions">PLANE ANGLE CONVERSIONS</a></h1>
(Plane, 2-dimensional) angles may be converted with the following functions.
<dl>
<dt><a name="deg2rad" class="item">deg2rad</a>

<dd>
<pre>
 $radians = deg2rad($degrees);</pre>
</dd>
<dt><a name="grad2rad" class="item">grad2rad</a>

<dd>
<pre>
 $radians = grad2rad($gradians);</pre>
</dd>
<dt><a name="rad2deg" class="item">rad2deg</a>

<dd>
<pre>
 $degrees = rad2deg($radians);</pre>
</dd>
<dt><a name="grad2deg" class="item">grad2deg</a>

<dd>
<pre>
 $degrees = grad2deg($gradians);</pre>
</dd>
<dt><a name="deg2grad" class="item">deg2grad</a>

<dd>
<pre>
 $gradians = deg2grad($degrees);</pre>
</dd>
<dt><a name="rad2grad" class="item">rad2grad</a>

<dd>
<pre>
 $gradians = rad2grad($radians);</pre>
</dd>
</dl>
The full circle is 2 pi radians or 360 degrees or 400 gradians.
The result is by default wrapped to be inside the [0, {2pi,360,400}[ circle.
If you don't want this, supply a true second argument:
<pre>
 $zillions_of_radians = deg2rad($zillions_of_degrees, 1);
 $negative_degrees = rad2deg($negative_radians, 1);</pre>
You can also do the wrapping explicitly by rad2rad(), deg2deg(), and
grad2grad().
<dl>
<dt><a name="rad2rad" class="item">rad2rad</a>

<dd>
<pre>
 $radians_wrapped_by_2pi = rad2rad($radians);</pre>
</dd>
<dt><a name="deg2deg" class="item">deg2deg</a>

<dd>
<pre>
 $degrees_wrapped_by_360 = deg2deg($degrees);</pre>
</dd>
<dt><a name="grad2grad" class="item">grad2grad</a>

<dd>
<pre>
 $gradians_wrapped_by_400 = grad2grad($gradians);</pre>
</dd>
</dl>


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<h1><a name="radial_coordinate_conversions">RADIAL COORDINATE CONVERSIONS</a></h1>
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
<code>:radial</code> tag:
<pre>
 use Math::Trig ':radial';</pre>
<pre>
 ($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);</pre>
All angles are in radians.


<h2><a name="coordinate_systems">COORDINATE SYSTEMS</a></h2>
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 Gulf 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.


<h2><a name="3_d_angle_conversions">3-D ANGLE CONVERSIONS</a></h2>
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.
<dl>
<dt><a name="cartesian_to_cylindrical" class="item">cartesian_to_cylindrical</a>

<dd>
<pre>
 ($rho, $theta, $z) = cartesian_to_cylindrical($x, $y, $z);</pre>
</dd>
<dt><a name="cartesian_to_spherical" class="item">cartesian_to_spherical</a>

<dd>
<pre>
 ($rho, $theta, $phi) = cartesian_to_spherical($x, $y, $z);</pre>
</dd>
<dt><a name="cylindrical_to_cartesian" class="item">cylindrical_to_cartesian</a>

<dd>
<pre>
 ($x, $y, $z) = cylindrical_to_cartesian($rho, $theta, $z);</pre>
</dd>
<dt><a name="cylindrical_to_spherical" class="item">cylindrical_to_spherical</a>

<dd>
<pre>
 ($rho_s, $theta, $phi) = cylindrical_to_spherical($rho_c, $theta, $z);</pre>
</dd>
<dd>
Notice that when <code>$z</code> is not 0 <code>$rho_s</code> is not equal to <code>$rho_c</code>.
</dd>
<dt><a name="spherical_to_cartesian" class="item">spherical_to_cartesian</a>

<dd>
<pre>
 ($x, $y, $z) = spherical_to_cartesian($rho, $theta, $phi);</pre>
</dd>
<dt><a name="spherical_to_cylindrical" class="item">spherical_to_cylindrical</a>

<dd>
<pre>
 ($rho_c, $theta, $z) = spherical_to_cylindrical($rho_s, $theta, $phi);</pre>
</dd>
<dd>
Notice that when <code>$z</code> is not 0 <code>$rho_c</code> is not equal to <code>$rho_s</code>.
</dd>
</dl>


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<h1><a name="great_circle_distances_and_directions">GREAT CIRCLE DISTANCES AND DIRECTIONS</a></h1>
A great circle is section of a circle that contains the circle
diameter: the shortest distance between two (non-antipodal) points on
the spherical surface goes along the great circle connecting those two
points.


<h2><a name="great_circle_distance">great_circle_distance</a></h2>
You can compute spherical distances, called great circle distances,
by importing the <code>great_circle_distance()</code> function:
<pre>
 use Math::Trig 'great_circle_distance';</pre>
<pre>
 $distance = great_circle_distance($theta0, $phi0, $theta1, $phi1, [, $rho]);</pre>
The great circle distance is the shortest distance between two
points on a sphere. The distance is in <code>$rho</code> units. The <code>$rho</code> 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
degrees).
<pre>
 $distance = great_circle_distance($lon0, pi/2 - $lat0,
 $lon1, pi/2 - $lat1, $rho);</pre>


<h2><a name="great_circle_direction">great_circle_direction</a></h2>
The direction you must follow the great circle (also known as bearing)
can be computed by the <code>great_circle_direction()</code> function:
<pre>
 use Math::Trig 'great_circle_direction';</pre>
<pre>
 $direction = great_circle_direction($theta0, $phi0, $theta1, $phi1);</pre>


<h2><a name="great_circle_bearing">great_circle_bearing</a></h2>
Alias 'great_circle_bearing' for 'great_circle_direction' is also available.
<pre>
 use Math::Trig 'great_circle_bearing';</pre>
<pre>
 $direction = great_circle_bearing($theta0, $phi0, $theta1, $phi1);</pre>
The result of great_circle_direction is in radians, zero indicating
straight north, pi or -pi straight south, pi/2 straight west, and
-pi/2 straight east.
You can inversely compute the destination if you know the
starting point, direction, and distance:


<h2><a name="great_circle_destination">great_circle_destination</a></h2>
<pre>
 use Math::Trig 'great_circle_destination';</pre>
<pre>
 # thetad and phid are the destination coordinates,
 # dird is the final direction at the destination.</pre>
<pre>
 ($thetad, $phid, $dird) =
 great_circle_destination($theta, $phi, $direction, $distance);</pre>
or the midpoint if you know the end points:


<h2><a name="great_circle_midpoint">great_circle_midpoint</a></h2>
<pre>
 use Math::Trig 'great_circle_midpoint';</pre>
<pre>
 ($thetam, $phim) =
 great_circle_midpoint($theta0, $phi0, $theta1, $phi1);</pre>
The <code>great_circle_midpoint()</code> is just a special case of


<h2><a name="great_circle_waypoint">great_circle_waypoint</a></h2>
<pre>
 use Math::Trig 'great_circle_waypoint';</pre>
<pre>
 ($thetai, $phii) =
 great_circle_waypoint($theta0, $phi0, $theta1, $phi1, $way);</pre>
Where the $way is a value from zero ($theta0, $phi0) to one ($theta1,
$phi1). Note that antipodal points (where their distance is pi
radians) do not have waypoints between them (they would have an an
&quot;equator&quot; between them), and therefore <a href="file://C|\ADE\aime_smenon_perl_090715\perl\html/pod/perlfunc.html#undef"><code>undef</code></a> is returned for
antipodal points. If the points are the same and the distance
therefore zero and all waypoints therefore identical, the first point
(either point) is returned.
The thetas, phis, direction, and distance in the above are all in radians.
You can import all the great circle formulas by
<pre>
 use Math::Trig ':great_circle';</pre>
Notice that the resulting directions might be somewhat surprising if
you are looking at a flat worldmap: in such map projections the great
circles quite often do not look like the shortest routes-- but for
example the shortest possible routes from Europe or North America to
Asia do often cross the polar regions.


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<h1><a name="examples">EXAMPLES</a></h1>
To calculate the distance between London (51.3N 0.5W) and Tokyo
(35.7N 139.8E) in kilometers:
<pre>
 use Math::Trig qw(great_circle_distance deg2rad);</pre>
<pre>
 # Notice the 90 - latitude: phi zero is at the North Pole.
 sub NESW { deg2rad($_[0]), deg2rad(90 - $_[1]) }
 my @L = NESW( -0.5, 51.3);
 my @T = NESW(139.8, 35.7);
 my $km = great_circle_distance(@L, @T, 6378); # About 9600 km.</pre>
The direction you would have to go from London to Tokyo (in radians,
straight north being zero, straight east being pi/2).
<pre>
 use Math::Trig qw(great_circle_direction);</pre>
<pre>
 my $rad = great_circle_direction(@L, @T); # About 0.547 or 0.174 pi.</pre>
The midpoint between London and Tokyo being
<pre>
 use Math::Trig qw(great_circle_midpoint);</pre>
<pre>
 my @M = great_circle_midpoint(@L, @T);</pre>
or about 89.16N 68.93E, practically at the North Pole.


<h2><a name="caveat_for_great_circle_formulas">CAVEAT FOR GREAT CIRCLE FORMULAS</a></h2>
The answers may be off by few percentages because of the irregular
(slightly aspherical) form of the Earth. The errors are at worst
about 0.55%, but generally below 0.3%.


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<h1><a name="bugs">BUGS</a></h1>
Saying <code>use Math::Trig;</code> exports many mathematical routines in the
caller environment and even overrides some (<a href="file://C|\ADE\aime_smenon_perl_090715\perl\html/pod/perlfunc.html#sin"><code>sin</code></a>, <a href="file://C|\ADE\aime_smenon_perl_090715\perl\html/pod/perlfunc.html#cos"><code>cos</code></a>). This is
construed as a feature by the Authors, actually... ;-)
The code is not optimized for speed, especially because we use
<code>Math::Complex</code> 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 <code>asin(2)</code> to give
an answer instead of giving a fatal runtime error.
Do not attempt navigation using these formulas.


<hr />
<h1><a name="authors">AUTHORS</a></h1>
Jarkko Hietaniemi &lt;jhi!at!iki.fi&gt; and 
Raphael Manfredi &lt;Raphael_Manfredi!at!pobox.com&gt;.
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