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10.2.8 Transforming arccos into arctan

The acos2atan command transforms arc cosines in an expression to arc tangents by using the identity

arccos(x)=
π
2
−arctan




x
1−x2





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Example

acos2atan(acos(x))
π
2
−arctan




x
1−x2





          

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