acos

NAME

acos, acosf, acosl - arc cosine function

SYNOPSIS

#include <math.h>
 I double acos(double  x );
I float acosf(float  x );
I long double acosl(long double  x );
Link with -lm.

DESCRIPTION

The R acos () function calculates the arc cosine of x; that is the value whose cosine is x. If x falls outside the range -1 to 1, R acos () fails and errno is set.

RETURN VALUE

The R acos () function returns the arc cosine in radians and the value is mathematically defined to be between 0 and PI (inclusive).

ERRORS

EDOM
x is out of range.

CONFORMING TO

SVr4, POSIX.1-2001, 4.3BSD, C89, C99. The float and long double variants are C99 requirements.

SEE ALSO

asin(3), atan(3), atan2(3), cacos(3), cos(3), sin(3), tan(3)