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Hi guys i'm not really a professional mathematician or anything, i'm still in school but i was wondering if anyone could help me with this problem. whenever i use asin and put this one specific fraction with 300sin84 as the numerator and 100 as the denominator it gives me a really weird answer possibly in some form of notation. the answer is: 100-90.(random decimals) and the letter "i" follows.
 Jun 12, 2012
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[input]asin( 300*sin(84) / 100 )[/input]
this is a complex solution.

[input]300*sin(84) / 100[/input]
the argument of asin(..) is 2.98356568610481.

[input]plot( sin(x), x=-360..360 )[/input]
sin(..) has a result between -1 and 1.

asin is the inverse of sin, so an argument outside of -1..1 (here 2.98356568610481) has to result in some "complex" result. (which is in this case really a complex number)
 Jun 12, 2012

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