1ATAN(3P)                   POSIX Programmer's Manual                  ATAN(3P)
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PROLOG

6       This  manual  page is part of the POSIX Programmer's Manual.  The Linux
7       implementation of this interface may differ (consult the  corresponding
8       Linux  manual page for details of Linux behavior), or the interface may
9       not be implemented on Linux.
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NAME

12       atan, atanf, atanl — arc tangent function
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SYNOPSIS

15       #include <math.h>
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17       double atan(double x);
18       float atanf(float x);
19       long double atanl(long double x);
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DESCRIPTION

22       The functionality described on this reference page is aligned with  the
23       ISO C  standard.  Any  conflict between the requirements described here
24       and the ISO C standard is unintentional. This  volume  of  POSIX.1‐2017
25       defers to the ISO C standard.
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27       These functions shall compute the principal value of the arc tangent of
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30       An application wishing to check for error situations should  set  errno
31       to  zero  and  call  feclearexcept(FE_ALL_EXCEPT)  before calling these
32       functions. On return, if errno is non-zero or fetestexcept(FE_INVALID |
33       FE_DIVBYZERO  |  FE_OVERFLOW  | FE_UNDERFLOW) is non-zero, an error has
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RETURN VALUE

37       Upon successful completion, these functions shall return the  arc  tan‐
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49       If  x  is  not  returned,  atan(), atanf(), and atanl() shall return an
50       implementation-defined value no  greater  in  magnitude  than  DBL_MIN,
51       FLT_MIN, and LDBL_MIN, respectively.
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ERRORS

54       These functions may fail if:
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56       Range Error The value of x is subnormal.
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58                   If  the  integer expression (math_errhandling & MATH_ERRNO)
59                   is non-zero, then errno shall be set to [ERANGE].   If  the
60                   integer  expression  (math_errhandling & MATH_ERREXCEPT) is
61                   non-zero, then the underflow floating-point exception shall
62                   be raised.
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64       The following sections are informative.
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EXAMPLES

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APPLICATION USAGE

70       On   error,   the   expressions  (math_errhandling  &  MATH_ERRNO)  and
71       (math_errhandling & MATH_ERREXCEPT) are independent of each other,  but
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RATIONALE

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FUTURE DIRECTIONS

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SEE ALSO

81       atan2(), feclearexcept(), fetestexcept(), isnan(), tan()
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83       The Base Definitions volume of POSIX.1‐2017, Section 4.20, Treatment of
84       Error Conditions for Mathematical Functions, <math.h>
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87       Portions of this text are reprinted and reproduced in  electronic  form
88       from  IEEE Std 1003.1-2017, Standard for Information Technology -- Por‐
89       table Operating System Interface (POSIX), The Open Group Base  Specifi‐
90       cations  Issue  7, 2018 Edition, Copyright (C) 2018 by the Institute of
91       Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc and The Open Group.   In  the
92       event of any discrepancy between this version and the original IEEE and
93       The Open Group Standard, the original IEEE and The Open Group  Standard
94       is  the  referee document. The original Standard can be obtained online
95       at http://www.opengroup.org/unix/online.html .
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