TAN
Section: Linux Programmer's Manual (3)
Updated: 2010-09-11
NAME
tan, tanf, tanl - tangent function
SYNOPSIS
#include <math.h>
double tan(double x);
float tanf(float x);
long double tanl(long double x);
Link with -lm.
Feature Test Macro Requirements for glibc (see
feature_test_macros(7)):
tanf(),
tanl():
-
_BSD_SOURCE || _SVID_SOURCE || _XOPEN_SOURCE >= 600 || _ISOC99_SOURCE ||
_POSIX_C_SOURCE >= 200112L;
or
cc -std=c99
DESCRIPTION
The
tan()
function returns the tangent of x, where x is
given in radians.
RETURN VALUE
On success, these functions return the tangent of
x.
If
x
is a NaN, a NaN is returned.
If
x
is positive infinity or negative infinity,
a domain error occurs,
and a NaN is returned.
If the correct result would overflow,
a range error occurs,
and the functions return
HUGE_VAL,
HUGE_VALF,
or
HUGE_VALL,
respectively, with the mathematically correct sign.
ERRORS
See
math_error(7)
for information on how to determine whether an error has occurred
when calling these functions.
The following errors can occur:
- Domain error: x is an infinity
-
errno
is set to
EDOM
(but see BUGS).
An invalid floating-point exception
(FE_INVALID)
is raised.
- Range error: result overflow
-
An overflow floating-point exception
(FE_OVERFLOW)
is raised.
CONFORMING TO
C99, POSIX.1-2001.
The variant returning
double
also conforms to
SVr4, 4.3BSD, C89.
BUGS
Before version 2.10, the glibc implementation did not set
errno
to
EDOM
when a domain error occurred.
SEE ALSO
acos(3),
asin(3),
atan(3),
atan2(3),
cos(3),
ctan(3),
sin(3)
COLOPHON
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project.
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Index
- NAME
-
- SYNOPSIS
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- DESCRIPTION
-
- RETURN VALUE
-
- ERRORS
-
- CONFORMING TO
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- BUGS
-
- SEE ALSO
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- COLOPHON
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