ATAN(3) Linux Programmer's Manual ATAN(3)NAME
atan, atanf, atanl - arc tangent function
SYNOPSIS
#include <math.h>
double atan(double x);
float atanf(float x);
long double atanl( long double x);
Link with -lm.
Feature Test Macro Requirements for glibc (see feature_test_macros(7)):
atanf(), atanl():
_BSD_SOURCE || _SVID_SOURCE || _XOPEN_SOURCE >= 600 ||
_ISOC99_SOURCE || _POSIX_C_SOURCE >= 200112L;
or cc -std=c99
DESCRIPTION
The atan() function calculates the principal value of the arc tangent
of x; that is the value whose tangent is x.
RETURN VALUE
On success, these functions return the principal value of the arc tan‐
gent of x in radians; the return value is in the range [-pi/2, pi/2].
If x is a NaN, a NaN is returned.
If x is +0 (-0), +0 (-0) is returned.
If x is positive infinity (negative infinity), +pi/2 (-pi/2) is
returned.
ERRORS
No errors occur.
CONFORMING TO
C99, POSIX.1-2001. The variant returning double also conforms to SVr4,
4.3BSD, C89.
SEE ALSOacos(3), asin(3), atan2(3), carg(3), catan(3), cos(3), sin(3), tan(3)COLOPHON
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2010-09-20 ATAN(3)