I love this discussion at squareCircleZ. All my readers should check it out. Which is the graph of arccot(x)?

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I especially like this controversy because some big players have weighed in on each side. Mathcad and Maple prefer the first interpretation, Mathematica and Matlab prefer the second.

For a more thorough treatment, check out the original post here. Three cheers for great math blogging! 🙂