wierd ASIN bug

blahboybang · Post by **blahboybang** » Feb 17, 2006 19:57

I was playing aroun with functions and I ran some simple code:

print ASin(5)
sleep

The screen printed:

1.#QNAN

What the heck is THAT?

I am using version 15.

Post by **v1ctor** » Feb 17, 2006 21:07

printf( "%g\n", asin( 5.0 ) ); gives -1.INF# in C, so that's not a valid input.

red_Marvin · Post by **red_Marvin** » Feb 17, 2006 22:47

ASIN(X) is only valid for 1<=X<=1

jofers · Post by **jofers** » Feb 18, 2006 1:40

Think about it -- how can the sine of a number be more than one or less than negative one?

ytwinky · Post by **ytwinky** » Feb 19, 2006 17:43

..and don't forget, ACos() follows 'the same' rules:
ACos(x) is defined only for Abs(x)<=1.0
regards
ytwinky

voodooattack · Post by **voodooattack** » Feb 20, 2006 12:11

ASIN accepts a value as radians (double)..

that would be -1 to 1

so, you can't feed it a value larger than 1 or less than -1 :)