cos

Section: C Library Functions (3)
Updated: 2023-02-05
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NAME

cos, cosf, cosl - cosine function  

LIBRARY

Math library (libm, -lm)  

SYNOPSIS

#include <math.h>

double cos(double x);
float cosf(float x);
long double cosl(long double x);

Feature Test Macro Requirements for glibc (see feature_test_macros(7)):

cosf(), cosl():

    _ISOC99_SOURCE || _POSIX_C_SOURCE >= 200112L
        || /* Since glibc 2.19: */ _DEFAULT_SOURCE
        || /* glibc <= 2.19: */ _BSD_SOURCE || _SVID_SOURCE
 

DESCRIPTION

These functions return the cosine of x, where x is given in radians.  

RETURN VALUE

On success, these functions return the cosine of x.

If x is a NaN, a NaN is returned.

If x is positive infinity or negative infinity, a domain error occurs, and a NaN is returned.  

ERRORS

See math_error(7) for information on how to determine whether an error has occurred when calling these functions.

The following errors can occur:

Domain error: x is an infinity
errno is set to EDOM (but see BUGS). An invalid floating-point exception (FE_INVALID) is raised.
 

ATTRIBUTES

For an explanation of the terms used in this section, see attributes(7).
InterfaceAttributeValue
cos(), cosf(), cosl() Thread safetyMT-Safe

 

STANDARDS

C99, POSIX.1-2001, POSIX.1-2008.

The variant returning double also conforms to SVr4, 4.3BSD.  

BUGS

Before glibc 2.10, the glibc implementation did not set errno to EDOM when a domain error occurred.  

SEE ALSO

acos(3), asin(3), atan(3), atan2(3), ccos(3), sin(3), sincos(3), tan(3)


 

Index

NAME
LIBRARY
SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
RETURN VALUE
ERRORS
ATTRIBUTES
STANDARDS
BUGS
SEE ALSO

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