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10.2.8 Transforming arccos into arctan

The acos2atan command transforms arc cosines in an expression to arc tangents by using the identity

arccos(x)=
π
2
−arctan⎛
⎜
⎜
⎜
⎜
⎝
x
√
1−x2
⎞
⎟
⎟
⎟
⎟
⎠
.

Example

acos2atan(acos(x))
π
2
−arctan ⎛
⎜
⎜
⎜
⎜
⎝
x
√
1−x2
⎞
⎟
⎟
⎟
⎟
⎠
          

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