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• Interpolation and Computational Geometry

• Cartesian Coordinate System Conversion

• Nonlinear Numerical Methods

• Specialized Math

• Sparse Matrices

• Math Constants

• Data Analysis

• Programming and Data Types

• Object-Oriented Programming

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• Examples

• Release Notes

Learn more about MATLAB

asind - Inverse sine; result in degrees

Syntax

Y = asind(X)

Description

Y = asind(X) is the inverse sine or arcsine, expressed in degrees, of the elements of X.

Definitions

The arcsine is defined as:

Examples

Graph the inverse sine function over the domain .

x = -1:.01:1; 
plot(x,asind(x)), grid on

References

The MATLAB trigonomteric functions use FDLIBM, which was developed at SunSoft, a Sun Microsystems business, by Kwok C. Ng, and others. For information about FDLIBM, see http://www.netlib.org.