acosl (3) manual page
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Name
acos, acosf, acosl - arc cosine function
Synopsis
#include <math.h>
double acos(double x);
float acosf(float x);
long double acosl(long double x);
Link with -lm.
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
SVr4, POSIX.1-2001, 4.3BSD, C89. 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)
