ATAN(3) BSD Programmer's Manual ATAN(3)NAME
atan, atanf - arc tangent functions of one variable
SYNOPSIS
#include <math.h>
double
atan(double x);
float
atanf(float x);
DESCRIPTION
The atan() and the atanf() functions compute the principal value of the
arc tangent of x, in the range [-pi/2, +pi/2] radians.
SEE ALSOacos(3), asin(3), atan2(3), cos(3), cosh(3), math(3), sin(3),
sinh(3), tan(3), tanh(3)STANDARDS
The atan() function conforms to ANSI C X3.159-1989 (``ANSI C '').
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