NAME | SYNOPSIS | DESCRIPTION | RETURN VALUE | ERRORS | ATTRIBUTES | CONFORMING TO | BUGS | SEE ALSO | COLOPHON

TAN(3)                    Linux Programmer's Manual                   TAN(3)

NAME         top

       tan, tanf, tanl - tangent function

SYNOPSIS         top

       #include <math.h>
       double tan(double x);
       float tanf(float x);
       long double tanl(long double x);
       Link with -lm.
   Feature Test Macro Requirements for glibc (see feature_test_macros(7)):
       tanf(), tanl():
           _ISOC99_SOURCE || _POSIX_C_SOURCE >= 200112L
               || /* Since glibc 2.19: */ _DEFAULT_SOURCE
               || /* Glibc versions <= 2.19: */ _BSD_SOURCE || _SVID_SOURCE

DESCRIPTION         top

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

RETURN VALUE         top

       On success, these functions return the tangent 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.
       If the correct result would overflow, a range error occurs, and the
       functions return HUGE_VAL, HUGE_VALF, or HUGE_VALL, respectively,
       with the mathematically correct sign.

ERRORS         top

       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.
       Range error: result overflow
              An overflow floating-point exception (FE_OVERFLOW) is raised.

ATTRIBUTES         top

       For an explanation of the terms used in this section, see
       attributes(7).
       ┌──────────────────────┬───────────────┬─────────┐
       │Interface             Attribute     Value   │
       ├──────────────────────┼───────────────┼─────────┤
       │tan(), tanf(), tanl() │ Thread safety │ MT-Safe │
       └──────────────────────┴───────────────┴─────────┘

CONFORMING TO         top

       C99, POSIX.1-2001, POSIX.1-2008.
       The variant returning double also conforms to SVr4, 4.3BSD, C89.

BUGS         top

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

SEE ALSO         top

       acos(3), asin(3), atan(3), atan2(3), cos(3), ctan(3), sin(3)

COLOPHON         top

       This page is part of release 4.12 of the Linux man-pages project.  A
       description of the project, information about reporting bugs, and the
       latest version of this page, can be found at
       https://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/.
                                 2016-03-15                           TAN(3)

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