diff etc/NEWS @ 43415:59c97b8695ee

Document the optional second arg of `atan'.
author Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
date Tue, 19 Feb 2002 11:07:20 +0000
parents ce9f8721c918
children bacf1b0c4081
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--- a/etc/NEWS	Tue Feb 19 11:03:54 2002 +0000
+++ b/etc/NEWS	Tue Feb 19 11:07:20 2002 +0000
@@ -626,6 +626,13 @@
 or the header line.
 
 +++
+** The function `atan' now accepts an optional second argument.
+
+When called with 2 arguments, as in `(atan Y X)', `atan' returns the
+angle in radians between the vector [X, Y] and the X axis.  (This is
+equivalent to the standard C library function `atan2'.)
+
++++
 ** You can now make a window as short as one line.
 
 A window that is just one line tall does not display either a mode