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atan(3) Library Functions Manual atan(3)
atan, atanf, atanl - arc tangent function
Math library (libm, -lm)
#include <math.h> double atan(double x); float atanf(float x); long double atanl(long double x); Feature Test Macro Requirements for glibc (see feature_test_macros(7)): atanf(), atanl(): _ISOC99_SOURCE || _POSIX_C_SOURCE >= 200112L || /* Since glibc 2.19: */ _DEFAULT_SOURCE || /* glibc <= 2.19: */ _BSD_SOURCE || _SVID_SOURCE
These functions calculate the principal value of the arc tangent of x; that is the value whose tangent is x.
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.
No errors occur.
For an explanation of the terms used in this section, see attributes(7). ┌─────────────────────────────────────┬───────────────┬─────────┐ │ Interface │ Attribute │ Value │ ├─────────────────────────────────────┼───────────────┼─────────┤ │ atan(), atanf(), atanl() │ Thread safety │ MT-Safe │ └─────────────────────────────────────┴───────────────┴─────────┘
C11, POSIX.1-2008.
C99, POSIX.1-2001. The variant returning double also conforms to SVr4, 4.3BSD, C89.
acos(3), asin(3), atan2(3), carg(3), catan(3), cos(3), sin(3), tan(3)
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