atan2(x,x)



On 11/18/08, Richard Fateman <fateman at cs.berkeley.edu> wrote:

> Probably every variation you have thought of has been considered, and
>  some of them programmed.
>  Robert Dodier, in particular, has been advocating for "fixing" this
>  recently. But attempts to do this in Macsyma date back at least 30 years.

Yes, so what? That's no reason to discourage another attempt.
I don't see any reason to think that new solutions to old problems
are beyond the reach of the current crop of developers.

Robert Dodier