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atan

Arctangent function.

Compatibility:

This function is compatible with the following targets:

ANSI

BeOS

EMB/RTOS

Mac OS

Palm OS

Win32


Prototype:
#include <math.h>

double atan(double x);
float atanf(float);
long double atanl(long double);
Parameters:

Parameters for this function are:

x  
float, double or long double  
value to be computed  

Remarks:

This function computes the value of the arc tangent of the argument. See "Example of acos(), asin(), atan(), atan2() usage." for example usage.

Return:

The function atan() returns the arc tangent of the argument x in the range

[-/2, +/2] radians.

See Also:

"tan"

"errno"


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