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This demonstrates a Pólya plot of trigonometric and inverse trigonometric functions. Pólya plots show the 'flow' of complex‐valued functions in the complex plane. Choose a function of interest and then explore its behavior in the complex plane by varying the domain and resolution.

Contributed by: Michael Trott (March 2011)
Open content licensed under CC BY-NC-SA

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function — the trigonometric or inverse trigonometric function to be used domain size — extension of the domain in which to plot the function resolution — the number of arrows per dimension

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