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1 <!-- 2 3 @license Apache-2.0 4 5 Copyright (c) 2020 The Stdlib Authors. 6 7 Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); 8 you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. 9 You may obtain a copy of the License at 10 11 http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 12 13 Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software 14 distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, 15 WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. 16 See the License for the specific language governing permissions and 17 limitations under the License. 18 19 --> 20 21 # acot 22 23 > Compute the [inverse cotangent][arccotangent] of a number. 24 25 <section class="usage"> 26 27 ## Usage 28 29 ```javascript 30 var acot = require( '@stdlib/math/base/special/acot' ); 31 ``` 32 33 #### acot( x ) 34 35 Computes the [inverse cotangent][arccotangent] of a `number` (in radians). 36 37 ```javascript 38 var v = acot( 2.0 ); 39 // returns ~0.4636 40 41 v = acot( Infinity ); 42 // returns 0.0 43 ``` 44 45 </section> 46 47 <!-- /.usage --> 48 49 <section class="examples"> 50 51 ## Examples 52 53 <!-- eslint no-undef: "error" --> 54 55 ```javascript 56 var linspace = require( '@stdlib/array/linspace' ); 57 var acot = require( '@stdlib/math/base/special/acot' ); 58 59 var x = linspace( -5.0, 5.0, 100 ); 60 var i; 61 62 for ( i = 0; i < x.length; i++ ) { 63 console.log( acot( x[ i ] ) ); 64 } 65 ``` 66 67 </section> 68 69 <!-- /.examples --> 70 71 <section class="links"> 72 73 [arccotangent]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inverse_trigonometric_functions 74 75 </section> 76 77 <!-- /.links -->