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maint: Periodic merge of stable to default.
author Mike Miller <mtmiller@octave.org>
date Fri, 17 Jun 2016 14:41:49 -0700
parents e9765b62d4e8 (current diff) 9780323c1c89 (diff)
children 241d39c66e8f
files libinterp/corefcn/data.cc
diffstat 1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) [+]
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--- a/libinterp/corefcn/data.cc	Fri Jun 17 14:24:27 2016 -0700
+++ b/libinterp/corefcn/data.cc	Fri Jun 17 14:41:49 2016 -0700
@@ -206,7 +206,11 @@
 Compute atan (@var{y} / @var{x}) for corresponding elements of @var{y}\n\
 and @var{x}.\n\
 \n\
-@var{y} and @var{x} must match in size and orientation.\n\
+@var{y} and @var{x} must match in size and orientation.  The signs of\n\
+elements of @var{y} and @var{x} are used to determine the quadrats of each\n\
+resulting value.\n\
+\n\
+This function is equivalent to @code{arg (complex (@var{x}, @var{y}))}.\n\
 @seealso{tan, tand, tanh, atanh}\n\
 @end deftypefn")
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