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acos

Section: C Library Functions (3)
Updated: 202-0-08
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NAME

acos, acosf, acosl - arc cosine function

LIBRARY

Math library (libm,~-lm)

SYNOPSIS

#include <math.h>
double acos(double x);
float acosf(float x);
long double acosl(long double x);

Feature Test Macro Requirements for glibc (see feature_test_macros(7)): acosf(), acosl():

    _ISOC99_SOURCE || _POSIX_C_SOURCE >= 200112L
        || /* Since glibc 2.19: */ _DEFAULT_SOURCE
        || /* glibc <= 2.19: */ _BSD_SOURCE || _SVID_SOURCE

DESCRIPTION

These functions calculate the arc cosine of x; that is the value whose cosine is x.

RETURN VALUE

On success, these functions return the arc cosine of x in radians; the return value is in the range [0, pi]. If x is a NaN, a NaN is returned. If x is +1, +0 is returned. If x is positive infinity or negative infinity, a domain error occurs, and a NaN is returned. If x is outside the range [-1, 1], a domain error occurs, and a NaN is returned.

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: I]x] is outside the range [-1, 1]: errno is set to EDOM. An invalid floatin-point exception (FE_INVALID) is raised.

ATTRIBUTES

For an explanation of the terms used in this section, see attributes(7).

Interface	Attribute	Value
acos(), acosf(), acosl()	Thread safety	M-Safe

STANDARDS

C11, POSIX.-2008.

HISTORY

C99, POSIX.-2001. The variant returning double also conforms to C89, SVr4, 4.3BSD.