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6 acos, acosf, acosl - arc cosine function
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9 #include <math.h>
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11 double acos(double x);
12 float acosf(float x);
13 long double acosl(long double x);
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17 Feature Test Macro Requirements for glibc (see feature_test_macros(7)):
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19 acosf(), acosl():
20 _ISOC99_SOURCE || _POSIX_C_SOURCE >= 200112L
21 || /* Since glibc 2.19: */ _DEFAULT_SOURCE
22 || /* Glibc versions <= 2.19: */ _BSD_SOURCE || _SVID_SOURCE
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25 These functions calculate the arc cosine of x; that is the value whose
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29 On success, these functions return the arc cosine of x in radians; the
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56 ┌─────────────────────────┬───────────────┬─────────┐
57 │Interface │ Attribute │ Value │
58 ├─────────────────────────┼───────────────┼─────────┤
59 │acos(), acosf(), acosl() │ Thread safety │ MT-Safe │
60 └─────────────────────────┴───────────────┴─────────┘
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67 asin(3), atan(3), atan2(3), cacos(3), cos(3), sin(3), tan(3)
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