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OpenStudy (anonymous):

Why can't cos^-1(0) equal -pi/2???

OpenStudy (jdoe0001):

hmmm what makes you think it doesn't?

OpenStudy (anonymous):

because it just isn't....and I don't know why??

OpenStudy (anonymous):

I think they only ever mention the positive value.

OpenStudy (tkhunny):

It's just a convention - sufficiently powerful that calculators are programmed that way. The problem to be solved was making the inverse a FUNCTION. A reasonable choice had to be made.

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