Use this when you want to find the angle whose tangent is a given value within a flow, for example computing bearing or slope angle from rise/run.
Category: Trigonometry
Kind: Operation
Description: Get the arctangent of a number
Arctangent (arctan or tan⁻¹) is the inverse function of the tangent, meaning if tan(x) = y, then arctan(y) = x, giving you the angle (x) whose tangent is a specific value (y), often used in physics, engineering, and game development to find angles from slopes or vectors. It answers the question, "What angle produces this ratio of opposite side to adjacent side?" (or rise over run)
Inputs
Name | Abbreviation | Type | Access | Description |
Number | N | Number | Item | The number (optional). If left blank, it is treated as 0. |
Outputs
Name | Abbreviation | Type | Access | Description |
Atan | A | Number | Item | The arctangent of the number |
How to
Feed in a number into the Input
The Output generates the arctangent as a number