# Inverse Tangent?!?

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/inverse-tangent/101466>\
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**Created:** [February 10, 2004, 4:53am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/inverse-tangent/101466 "2004-02-10T04:53:58Z")\
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**Author:** ![Maniaci](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e495f1/32.png) [@Maniaci](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Maniaci)\
**Post date:** [February 10, 2004, 4:53am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/inverse-tangent/101466/1 "2004-02-10T04:53:58Z")

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I’m trying to get an angle out of the X and the Y values of the mouse. If there is an inverse tangent, it would be someingthing like invtan(x,y).