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how to write tan^-1 in excel

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jonc...@gmail.com

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Dec 18, 2019, 2:29:44 PM12/18/19
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hi
im trying to write tan^-1 in excel
but keeps running into problems.
anyone know how to do this?
kind regards
john

Claus Busch

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Dec 18, 2019, 2:49:26 PM12/18/19
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Hi John,

Am Wed, 18 Dec 2019 11:29:41 -0800 (PST) schrieb jonc...@gmail.com:

> im trying to write tan^-1 in excel
> but keeps running into problems.
> anyone know how to do this?

if you have degrees of an angle in A1, then try:

=TAN(RADIANS(A1))^-1
or easier:
=COT(RADIANS(A1))


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Claus B.
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dpb

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Dec 18, 2019, 3:43:45 PM12/18/19
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> hi
> im trying to write tan^-1 in excel
...

As most programming languages the function name is ATAN(). NB: its
argument is in radians, not degrees.

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dpb

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Dec 18, 2019, 5:42:30 PM12/18/19
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On 12/18/2019 1:29 PM, jonc...@gmail.com wrote:
> hi
> im trying to write tan^-1 in excel
> but keeps running into problems.
> anyone know how to do this?

Function is ATAN() with argument in radians (not degrees)

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