P4
Name: js151677 Date: 08/02/2004
A DESCRIPTION OF THE PROBLEM :
The method description for java.lang.Math.asin(double) says:
Returns the arc sine of an angle, in the range of -pi/2 through pi/2. ....
Saying "the arc sine of an angle" makes no sense, because the arc sine function not a
function of an angle. It is a function whose _return_ value represents an angle. The
argument is not an angle.
Additionally, the return value description does not say that the value is the angle
in radians (as the parameter descriptions for sin(...), etc., document that they are
angles expression in radians).
The descriptions of asin(double) and atan(double) have the same error.
ACTUAL -
see above
URL OF FAULTY DOCUMENTATION :
http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/docs/api/java/lang/Math.html
(Incident Review ID: 290560)
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A DESCRIPTION OF THE PROBLEM :
The method description for java.lang.Math.asin(double) says:
Returns the arc sine of an angle, in the range of -pi/2 through pi/2. ....
Saying "the arc sine of an angle" makes no sense, because the arc sine function not a
function of an angle. It is a function whose _return_ value represents an angle. The
argument is not an angle.
Additionally, the return value description does not say that the value is the angle
in radians (as the parameter descriptions for sin(...), etc., document that they are
angles expression in radians).
The descriptions of asin(double) and atan(double) have the same error.
ACTUAL -
see above
URL OF FAULTY DOCUMENTATION :
http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/docs/api/java/lang/Math.html
(Incident Review ID: 290560)
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###@###.### 10/25/04 20:37 GMT
- relates to
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JDK-4129222 Documentation Wrong For Math.acos(), Math.asin(), and Math.atan()
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- Closed
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