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ACOS

NAME
SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
RETURN VALUE
ERRORS
CONFORMING TO
SEE ALSO

NAME

acos ? arc cosine function

SYNOPSIS

#include <math.h>

double acos(double x);

DESCRIPTION

The 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, acos() fails and errno is set.

RETURN VALUE

The 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

SVID 3, POSIX, BSD 4.3, ISO 9899

SEE ALSO

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


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