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

NAME         top

       sin, sinf, sinl - sine function

SYNOPSIS         top

       #include <math.h>

       double sin(double x);
       float sinf(float x);
       long double sinl(long double x);

       Link with -lm.

   Feature Test Macro Requirements for glibc (see feature_test_macros(7)):

       sinf(), sinl():
           _BSD_SOURCE || _SVID_SOURCE || _XOPEN_SOURCE >= 600 || _ISOC99_SOURCE ||
           _POSIX_C_SOURCE >= 200112L;
           or cc -std=c99

DESCRIPTION         top

       The sin() function returns the sine of x, where x is given in radians.

RETURN VALUE         top

       On success, these functions return the sine of x.

       If x is a NaN, a NaN is returned.

       If x is positive infinity or negative infinity, a domain error occurs, and a
       NaN is returned.

ERRORS         top

       See math_error(7) for information on how to determine whether an error has
       occurred when calling these functions.

       The following errors can occur:

       Domain error: x is an infinity
              errno is set to EDOM (but see BUGS).  An invalid floating-point
              exception (FE_INVALID) is raised.

CONFORMING TO         top

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

BUGS         top

       Before version 2.10, the glibc implementation did not set errno to EDOM when a
       domain error occurred.

SEE ALSO         top

       acos(3), asin(3), atan(3), atan2(3), cos(3), csin(3), sincos(3), tan(3)

COLOPHON         top

       This page is part of release 3.32 of the Linux man-pages project.  A
       description of the project, and information about reporting bugs, can be found
       at http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/.

                                      2010-09-11                               SIN(3)

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