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4 Aug 2024 20:15:27 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Slope buggerliness  
From: Hans-Detlev Fink
Date: 18 Feb 2003 11:30:38
Message: <3E525FD0.4050102@pecos.no.spam.de>
Shame on me. I found it the same evening when looking
into the slope code (that uses basically your equation).
I hardly dare to confess part of it was written by myself.
Shame on me!!!

-Hans-

Meow Cat wrote:
> "Hans-Detlev Fink" <mas### [at] pecosnospamde> wrote in message
> news:3E4### [at] pecosnospamde...
> 
>>Doesn't change the basic problem, but shouldn't
>>     0.5+asin(y)/pi
>>rather be
>>     0.5*(1+asin(y)/pi) ?
>>
>>-Hans-
>>
> 
> 
> asin did give values in the range [-pi/2, pi/2] the last time I checked...
> 
> 0.5*(1+(pi/2)/pi) is about 0.75 while 0.5 + (pi/2)/pi is about 1.0
> 
> Well, we all make mistakes. In some cases it's half of the fun!
> 
> -- MeowCat
> 
> 
>


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