ACOS(3) | Linux Programmer's Manual | ACOS(3) |
NAME
acos, acosf, acosl - arc cosine functionSYNOPSIS
#include<math.h>
double acos(double x );
float acosf(float x );
long double acosl(long double x );
Feature Test Macro Requirements for glibc (see feature_test_macros(7)):
_BSD_SOURCE || _SVID_SOURCE || _XOPEN_SOURCE >= 600 || _ISOC99_SOURCE || _POSIX_C_SOURCE >= 200112L;
or
cc -std=c99
DESCRIPTION
The acos() function calculates the arc cosine of x; that is the value whose cosine is x.RETURN VALUE
On success, these functions return the arc cosine of x in radians; the return value is in the range [0, pi].ERRORS
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 outside the range [-1, 1]
- errno is set to EDOM. An invalid floating-point exception ( FE_INVALID) is raised.
CONFORMING TO
C99, POSIX.1-2001. The variant returning double also conforms to SVr4, 4.3BSD, C89.SEE ALSO
asin(3), atan(3), atan2(3), cacos(3), cos(3), sin(3), tan(3)COLOPHON
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