tan

Synopsis

#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():

Description

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

Return Value

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

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

For an explanation of the terms used in this section, see attributes(7).

Conforming to

C99, POSIX.1-2001, POSIX.1-2008.

The variant returning double also conforms to SVr4, 4.3BSD, C89.

Bugs

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

See Also

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

Colophon

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Referenced By

acos(3), asin(3), atan(3), atan2(3), cos(3), sin(3), sincos(3).

The man pages tanf(3) and tanl(3) are aliases of tan(3).