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35 .TH ATAN 3 2013-10-07 "" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
37 atan, atanf, atanl \- arc tangent function
42 .BI "double atan(double " x );
44 .BI "float atanf(float " x );
46 .BI "long double atanl( long double " x );
52 Feature Test Macro Requirements for glibc (see
53 .BR feature_test_macros (7)):
60 _BSD_SOURCE || _SVID_SOURCE || _XOPEN_SOURCE\ >=\ 600 || _ISOC99_SOURCE ||
61 _POSIX_C_SOURCE\ >=\ 200112L;
70 function calculates the principal value of the arc tangent of
72 that is the value whose tangent is
75 On success, these functions return the principal value of the arc tangent of
77 in radians; the return value is in the range [\-pi/2,\ pi/2].
81 is a NaN, a NaN is returned.
90 is positive infinity (negative infinity), +pi/2 (\-pi/2) is returned.
92 .\" POSIX.1-2001 documents an optional range error for subnormal x;
93 .\" glibc 2.8 does not do this.
97 .SS Multithreading (see pthreads(7))
103 functions are thread-safe.
106 The variant returning