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cos, cosf, cosl - Cosine

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Definition

#include <math.h>

double cos(double x);
float cosf(float x); (C11)
long double cosl(long double x); (C11)

These functions calculate the trigonometric function cosine for the floating-point number x.

Return val.

cos(x)      a floating-point number in the interval [-1.0, +1.0].

Example

The following program lists the cosine values corresponding to input values in the interval [-pi, +pi].

#include <math.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#define pi 3.14159265358979
int main(void)
{
   double x;
   for (x = -pi; x <= pi; x = x + pi/4.)
       printf("cos(%f) = %f\n", x, cos(x));
   return 0;
}

See also

acos, cosh, sin, asin, sinh, tan, atan, atan2, tanh