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  2. Minute and second of arc - Wikipedia

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    The Earth's rotational rate around its own axis is 15 minutes of arc per minute of time (360 degrees / 24 hours in day); the Earth's rotational rate around the Sun (not entirely constant) is roughly 24 minutes of time per minute of arc (from 24 hours in day), which tracks the annual progression of the Zodiac.

  3. Machin-like formula - Wikipedia

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    The total time is 1.1191 + 0.8672 = 1.9863 The conclusion, based on this particular model, is that equation 6 is slightly faster than equation 5, regardless of the fact that equation 6 has more terms. This result is typical of the general trend.

  4. atan2 - Wikipedia

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    The two figures below show 3D views of respectively atan2(y, x) and arctan(⁠ y / x ⁠) over a region of the plane. Note that for atan2(y, x), rays in the X/Y-plane emanating from the origin have constant values, but for arctan(⁠ y / x ⁠) lines in the X/Y-plane passing through the origin have constant

  5. Arctangent series - Wikipedia

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    The derivative of arctan x is 1 / (1 + x 2); conversely, the integral of 1 / (1 + x 2) is arctan x. If = ...

  6. Astronomical coordinate systems - Wikipedia

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    Angles in the hours ( h), minutes ( m), and seconds ( s) of time measure must be converted to decimal degrees or radians before calculations are performed. 1 h = 15°; 1 m = 15′; 1 s = 15″ Angles greater than 360° (2 π) or less than 0° may need to be reduced to the range 0°−360° (0–2 π) depending upon the particular calculating ...

  7. Angular diameter - Wikipedia

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    (The Sun's diameter is 400 times as large and its distance also; the Sun is 200,000 to 500,000 times as bright as the full Moon (figures vary), corresponding to an angular diameter ratio of 450 to 700, so a celestial body with a diameter of 2.5–4″ and the same brightness per unit solid angle would have the same brightness as the full Moon.)

  8. Madhava series - Wikipedia

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    In mathematics, a Madhava series is one of the three Taylor series expansions for the sine, cosine, and arctangent functions discovered in 14th or 15th century in Kerala, India by the mathematician and astronomer Madhava of Sangamagrama (c. 1350 – c. 1425) or his followers in the Kerala school of astronomy and mathematics. [1]

  9. Solid angle - Wikipedia

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    [1] Solid angles can also be measured in square degrees (1 sr = (180/ π) 2 square degrees), in square arc-minutes and square arc-seconds, or in fractions of the sphere (1 sr = ⁠ 1 / 4 π ⁠ fractional area), also known as spat (1 sp = 4 π sr). In spherical coordinates there is a formula for the differential,