arctan_deg

Description

Computes the arc tangent of the input. The result is a float64, specified in degrees, in the range [-90, 90]

Arguments

1. input (required) Ratio to find the arc tangent of, float64.

Return type

float64

Domain

This is a scalar function (calculates a single output value for a single input row.)

Categories

• Numeric

Usage

arctan_deg(input)

Argument	Type	Optional	Repeatable	Restrictions
input	float64	no	no	none

Examples

make_col arctan:arctan_deg(ratio)

Create a column ‘arctan’ with the result of the arc tangent of column ‘ratio’
The resulting column will be in degrees.

Given the below column ratio, arctan_deg produces the below column arctan

ratio	arctan
-∞	-90
-√3	-60
-1	-45
0	0
1	45
√3	60
∞	90