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Simple Ouestion

Red — Fri, 30 Jan 2004 18:36:23 GMT

How should inverse tangent be worded in script? Everything I seem to try is not working out correctly.

Re: Simple Ouestion

Anonymous — Fri, 30 Jan 2004 19:53:26 GMT

Red wrote:
How should inverse tangent be worded in script? Everything I seem to try is not working out correctly.

angle = ATN(a/b)

Watch out for b = 0

Re: Simple Ouestion

Red — Fri, 30 Jan 2004 20:28:02 GMT

Thanks for the help works great now, but I have one more question.

Sometimes the sloped value will be 14'-10 7/64". How can round it to the nearest 1/8"?

Re: Simple Ouestion

Anonymous — Fri, 30 Jan 2004 22:25:34 GMT

Red wrote:
Thanks for the help works great now, but I have one more question.

Sometimes the sloped value will be 14'-10 7/64". How can round it to the nearest 1/8"?

It should look something like:

TEXT2 a, b, STR (“%0.8ffi”, length)

Go to page 115 of the GDL manual (assuming you have the same edition). In any case it is in chapter "11.3 Functions". It is a bit cryptic, but it is all there.