acosd {iemisc}

Inverse cosine (in degrees) [GNU Octave/MATLAB compatible]

Description

Calculates the value of inverse cosine for each element of x in degrees in a manner compatible with GNU Octave/MATLAB.

Usage

acosd(x)

Arguments

x

A numeric vector containing values in degrees

Value

The inverse cosine of each element of x in degrees.

Note

Note: If you have a radian (rad) angle value, use acos instead.

Author(s)

David Bateman (GNU Octave acosd), Irucka Embry

References

John W. Eaton, David Bateman, Søren Hauberg, and Rik Wehbring (November 2022). GNU Octave: A high-level interactive language for numerical computations: Edition 7 for Octave version 7.3.0. https://docs.octave.org/octave.pdf. Page 554.

Examples

library(iemisc)

# Examples from GNU Octave acosd
acosd (seq(0, 1, by = 0.1))