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Manual Reference Pages  - ASIN (3)

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NAME

asin, asinf, asinl - arc sine function

CONTENTS

Synopsis
Description
Errors

SYNOPSIS

#include <math.h> 



double asin(double x); 




float asinf(float x); 




long double asinl(long double x); 

Link with -lm.

DESCRIPTION

The asin() function calculates the arc sine of x; that is the value whose sine is x. If x falls outside the range -1 to 1, asin() fails and errno is set.

RETURN VALUE

The asin() function returns the arc sine in radians and the value is mathematically defined to be between -PI/2 and PI/2 (inclusive).

ERRORS

EDOM	x is out of range.

CONFORMING TO

SVr4, POSIX.1-2001, 4.3BSD, C89. The float and long double variants are C99 requirements.

SEE ALSO

acos(3), casin(3), atan(3), atan2(3), cos(3), sin(3), tan(3)

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ASIN (3)

2002-07-25

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