NAME | SYNOPSIS | DESCRIPTION | RETURN VALUE | ERRORS | CONFORMING TO | SEE ALSO | COLOPHON

ATAN(3)                       Linux Programmer's Manual                       ATAN(3)

NAME         top

       atan, atanf, atanl - arc tangent function

SYNOPSIS         top

       #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; or cc -std=c99

DESCRIPTION         top

       The atan() function calculates the principal value of the arc tangent of x;
       that is the value whose tangent is x.

RETURN VALUE         top

       On success, these functions return the principal value of the arc tangent 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         top

       No errors occur.

CONFORMING TO         top

       C99, POSIX.1-2001.  The variant returning double also conforms to SVr4,
       4.3BSD, C89.

SEE ALSO         top

       acos(3), asin(3), atan2(3), carg(3), catan(3), cos(3), sin(3), tan(3)

COLOPHON         top

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                                      2008-12-02                              ATAN(3)