ACOS

Section: Linux Programmer's Manual (3)
Updated: 2004-10-06
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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

SVID 3, POSIX, BSD 4.3, ISO 9899. The float and long double variants are C99 requirements.