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Transcendental functions

Pico is equipped with a standard set of native transcendental functions, that is the functions readily available on most pocket calculators. A first sequence consists of the three basic trigonometric functions and their inverse:

Note that arguments of sin, cos and tan as well as values returned by arcsin, arccos and arctan are expressed in ¹-radials. Moreover, the arguments of arcsin and arccos are restricted to the interval [-1, 1].

The next sequence consists of the sqrt, exp and log functions:

The argument of the sqrt function cannot be negative; the argument of the log function is required to be strictly positive.


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