82 lines
2.4 KiB
Groff
82 lines
2.4 KiB
Groff
.\" Copyright (c) 1991 The Regents of the University of California.
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.\" from: @(#)atan.3 5.1 (Berkeley) 5/2/91
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.\" $FreeBSD$
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.\"
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.Dd July 31, 2008
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.Dt ATAN 3
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.Os
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.Sh NAME
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.Nm atan ,
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.Nm atanf ,
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.Nm atanl
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.Nd arc tangent functions of one variable
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.Sh LIBRARY
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.Lb libm
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.Sh SYNOPSIS
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.In math.h
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.Ft double
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.Fn atan "double x"
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.Ft float
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.Fn atanf "float x"
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.Ft long double
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.Fn atanl "long double x"
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.Sh DESCRIPTION
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The
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.Fn atan ,
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.Fn atanf ,
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and
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.Fn atanl
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functions compute the principal value of the arc tangent of
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.Fa x .
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.Sh RETURN VALUES
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These functions return the arc tangent in the range
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.Bk -words
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.Bq -\*(Pi/2 , +\*(Pi/2
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.Ek
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radians.
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.Sh SEE ALSO
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.Xr acos 3 ,
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.Xr asin 3 ,
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.Xr atan2 3 ,
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.Xr cos 3 ,
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.Xr cosh 3 ,
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.Xr math 3 ,
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.Xr sin 3 ,
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.Xr sinh 3 ,
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.Xr tan 3 ,
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.Xr tanh 3
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.Sh STANDARDS
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The
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.Fn atan ,
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.Fn atanf ,
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and
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.Fn atanl
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functions conform to
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.St -isoC-99 .
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