tan^-1(x) for domain 0 to infinity gives a range of
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. So the range of this function is the same as the range of cos(u) where u has domain
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. THis gives a range of (0,1].
I see many people having problems with domain/range of composite functions, especially trig ones. Think of it as a computer/machine taking in numbers and spitting them out. So basically f(g(x)) takes some number x, then takes it through the machine g to produce a new number. Then takes that number and puts it through f. So in our case we're applying tan^-1 to numbers from 0 to infinity... producing numbers from 0 to pi/2 (but not including pi/2). Now all these numbers that belonged to that range are now inputed into the cosine function. And this gives numbers between 0 and 1. But not including 0 because cos(pi/2)=0 coz we didn't put pi/2 into our functions since it wasnt produced by tan^-1(x) earlier, just numbers very close to it.