Fix misleading docstring in cartesian_to_spherical - #4764
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…ity#3123) The docstring for cartesian_to_spherical stated the return order as (distance, phi, theta) but the actual return was [r, theta, phi]. This updates both cartesian_to_spherical and spherical_to_cartesian docstrings to clearly document the return order as (r, theta, phi) and define each component: r = radius, theta = azimuthal angle in the xy-plane, phi = polar angle from the positive z-axis.
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Summary
Fixes #3123
The docstring for \cartesian_to_spherical\ stated the return order as (distance, phi, theta), but the actual return value is [r, theta, phi]. This PR updates the docstrings of both \cartesian_to_spherical\ and \spherical_to_cartesian\ to:
\ — radius (distance from the origin)
No code logic was changed — this is a documentation-only fix.
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