tangent of halved angle
The formulae
may be solved for and , respectively. One gets the equations
where the signs have to be chosen according to the quadrant where the angle is. Changing to and dividing these equations gives us the formula
(1) |
Also here one must chose the sign according to the quadrant of .
We obtain two alternative forms of (1) when we multiply both the numerator andthe denominator of the radicand the first time by and thesecond time by ; note that :
(2) |
(3) |
Here, determines the sign of the hand sides;it can be justified that it has always the same sign as .