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layoutIfNeeded on Jan 24, 2021 | parent | context | favorite | on: Incomplete List of Mistakes in the Design of CSS

>We are inherently used to 2D coordinate systems being X, then Y.

I once wasted a whole afternoon looking for a bug until I realized that atan2 takes y first, then x.

https://www.cplusplus.com/reference/cmath/atan2/

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