Relationships Among The Inverse Trigonometric Functions
Complementary angles:
Negative arguments:
Reciprocal arguments:
If you only have a fragment of a sine table:
Whenever the square root of a complex number is used here, we choose the root with the positive real part (or positive imaginary part if the square was negative real).
From the half-angle formula, we get:
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