ANALYTICALLY CONTINUOUS FUNCTIONS FOR COMPUTING THE ARGUMENT OF A COMPLEX NUMBER
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https://doi.org/10.30890/2567-5273.2025-41-01-023Keywords:
argument computation, atan2, Atan4, inverse trigonometric functions, symbolic computation, phase analysis, branchless algorithms, SIMD vectorization.Abstract
Computing the argument of a complex number is fundamental to signal processing, navigation, and computational geometry. The standard atan2 function, while numerically efficient, produces cumbersome piecewise expressions in symbolic computation systems, coReferences
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