Mathematical Functions

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Mathematical Functions

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The available mathematical functions are summarised in the table below.

Mathematical Functions

Function

Description

ABS(A)

Returns the absolute value of A

ACOS(A)

Returns the arccosine of A, in radians

ACOSH(A)

Returns the inverse hyperbolic cosine of A, in radians

ASIN(A)

Returns the arcsine of A, in radians

ASINH(A)

Returns the inverse hyperbolic sine of A, in radians

ATAN(A)

Returns the arctangent of A, in radians

ATANH(A)

Returns the inverse hyperbolic tangent of A, in radians

ATANTWO(A,B)

Returns the arctangent treating A and B as x- and y-coordinates, in radians

CEIL(A)

Returns the nearest integer value greater than or equal to A.

CHAR(A)

Returns the character corresponding to the ASCII code for integer A

COS(A)

Returns the cosine of A, where A is in radians

COSH(A)

Returns the hyperbolic cosine of A, where A is in radians

CONVERT(A,B,C)

Convert a numeric value from one dimension to another. The original numeric value is A. B and C are strings which represent the current dimension and the dimension to convert to, respectively.

For example, to convert 21 inches to an equivalent value in metres: CONVERT(21, “in”, “m”) = 0.5334

DEGREES(A)

Returns the angle in degrees, where A is in radians

EXP(A)

Returns e raised to the power of A

FLOOR(A)

Returns the nearest integer value less than or equal to A.

INT(A)

Returns the nearest integer value to A.

LN(A)

Returns the natural logarithm of A

LOG(A)

Returns the base-10 logarithm of A

MAX(A,B)

Returns the larger of A or B

MIN(A,B)

Returns the smaller of A or B

MOD(A,B)

Returns the remainder after A is divided by B

RADIANS(A)

Returns the angle in radians, where A is in degrees

SQRT(A)

Returns the positive square root of A

SIN (A)

Returns the sine of A, where A is in radians

SINH (A)

Returns the hyperbolic sine of A, where A is in radians

TAN(A)

Returns the tangent of A, where A is in radians

TANH(A)

Returns the hyperbolic tangent of A, where A is in radians