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ComplementaryAngle

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Compute the geometric complement to a given angle

Contributed by: Paco Jain (Wolfram Research)

ResourceFunction["ComplementaryAngle"][θ]

gives the complement to the angle of θ.

Details and Options

ResourceFunction["ComplementaryAngle"] takes all angles to be measured in radians.
The complement of an angle θ is defined to be the angle which sums with θ to form a right angle. In other words, .

Examples

Basic Examples (1) 

Compute the complement of an angle:

In[1]:=
ResourceFunction["ComplementaryAngle"][Pi/3]
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Scope (1) 

ComplementaryAngle works directly on Quantity expressions with units of "Radians":

In[2]:=
ResourceFunction["ComplementaryAngle"][Quantity[1, "Radians"]]
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Properties and Relations (4) 

ComplementaryAngle will remain unevaluated for non-numeric input:

In[3]:=
ResourceFunction["ComplementaryAngle"][a]
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ComplementaryAngle will return a negative result if the input angle is greater than :

In[4]:=
ResourceFunction["ComplementaryAngle"][2.7]
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For negative input, ComplementaryAngle returns a result greater than :

In[5]:=
ResourceFunction["ComplementaryAngle"][-1.2]
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For numeric input, ComplementaryAngle is its own inverse:

In[6]:=
r = RandomReal[];
ResourceFunction["ComplementaryAngle"][
  ResourceFunction["ComplementaryAngle"][r]] == r
Out[7]=

Version History

  • 1.0.0 – 05 July 2019

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