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acos, acosf, acosl - arc cosine function

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Syntax

#include <math.h>

double acos(double x);
C11
float acosf(float x);
long double acosl(long double x); (End)

Description

These functions are the inverse function of the corresponding cos()-functions. They return the principal value (i.e. corresponding angle in radians) of the arc cosine of a floating-point number x in the range [-1.0, +1.0].

Return val.

arc cosine(x)
if successful. A floating-point number of type double in the range [0, pi] is returned.

0 if x does not lie in the range [-1.0, +1.0]. errno is set to indicate the error.

Errors

acos() will fail if:

EDOM       The value of x is not in the range [-1.0, +1.0].

Note

To make sure you catch an error, you should set errno to 0 before calling acos(). If after
execution errno != 0, an error has occurred.

See also

asin(), atan(), atan2(), cos(), sin(), tan(), math.h.