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asin, asinf, asinl - arc sine function

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Syntax

#include <math.h>

double asin(double x);
C11
float asinf(floatx);
long double asinl(long double x); (End) 

Description

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

Return val.

arc sine(x)

if successful. A floating-point number of type double in the range [-pi/2, +pi/2] is returned.


0.0

for values of x that are not in the range [-1.0, +1.0].
errno is set to indicate the error.


0.0

if the result causes an underflow.

Errors

asin(), asinf() and asinl() will fail if:

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

Notes

To be sure of catching an error, you should set errno to 0 before calling asin().
If after execution errno != 0, an error has occurred.

See also

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