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I know we have $Arc$ notation but my teacher told me $arc$ and $Arc$ having different . $Arcsin (x)$ means the first angle in $[-\pi/2 , \pi/2]$ which sine of it is $x$ and $arcsin(x)$ means all of the angles in $[-\pi/2 , \pi/2]$ which sine of it is $x$ .

I searched in the Google but didn't get this. I want to know that is it true ?

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    I can't say for sure but I have never heard of such a convention. Usually the term principle value is used.2017-02-24

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If you compute inverse $\sin$ and restrict solutions to that range then there will only be 1 angle anyway.

Capitalising the first letter conventionally indicates the principal value of an otherwise multi-valued function. It certainly occurs for complex valued functions such as Arg for the principal argument and Log for the principal log of $z$. It may not be a universal convention.