Inverse trigonometric functions in awk

[Melroy]

do asin, acos exist in awk,gawk or nawk?
from internet search I would have thought they would.
But they don't seem to exist when i try to use them.
when I type
awk '{print acos($1) ,$2}' effarea.dat
I get the message:
awk: cmd. line:1: (FILENAME=effarea.dat FNR=1) fatal: function `acos' not defined

same thing happened when I used nawk or gawk.
Is there a way to do this?
Melroy

[Charles Demas]

In article <1b7c3dda.0307...@posting.google.com>,

Use mathematical identities such as:

(sin a)**2 + (cos a)**2 = 1
tan a = (sin a)/(cos a)

so with a value v that is the cosine of an angle a,

tan(a) = sin(a)/cos(a) = sqrt(1 - (v)*(v))/(v)

tan(a) = sqrt((1/(v*v)) - 1)

a = atan2(sqrt(1/(v*v)) -1)

you can so the same thing starting with sine instead of cosine

Make sure you don't divide by zero. :-)

Chuck Demas

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[Tapani Tarvainen]

melroy...@hotmail.com (Melroy) writes:

> do asin, acos exist in awk,gawk or nawk?

No. They are easily defined, however:

function asin(x) { return atan2(x, sqrt(1-x*x)) }
function acos(x) { return atan2(sqrt(1-x*x), x) }
function atan(x) { return atan2(x,1) }

Beware of rounding errors with arguments close to 1.

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