maxima-bounces at math.utexas.edu wrote on 11/18/2008 10:11:01 AM:
> Maybe atan2 should just try to see if y/x is a number. If so, compute
> atan(y/x), but then ask for the signs so the right quadrant can be used.
> Then atan(x,x) and atan2(c*x,x) will both ask. This also has the nice
> effect of removing the super-special case of atan2(1,sqrt(3)).
I'll aim towards this. When Maxima has better support for conditional
statements, somebody can revisit atan2 (and lots of other functions).
Barton