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std::atan, std::atanf, std::atanl

Defined in header `<cmath>`
	(1)
float atan ( float arg );
float atanf( float arg );		(since C++11)
double atan ( double arg );	(2)
	(3)
long double atan ( long double arg );
long double atanl( long double arg );		(since C++11)
double atan ( IntegralType arg );	(4)	(since C++11)

1-3) Computes the principal value of the arc tangent of arg

4) A set of overloads or a function template accepting an argument of any integral type. Equivalent to 2) (the argument is cast to double).

Parameters

arg

value of a floating-point or Integral type

Return value

If no errors occur, the arc tangent of arg (arctan(arg)) in the range [- π/2 , +π/2] radians, is returned.

If a range error occurs due to underflow, the correct result (after rounding) is returned.

Error handling

Errors are reported as specified in math_errhandling.

If the implementation supports IEEE floating-point arithmetic (IEC 60559),

If the argument is ±0, it is returned unmodified
If the argument is +∞, +π/2 is returned
If the argument is -∞, -π/2 is returned
if the argument is NaN, NaN is returned

Notes

POSIX specifies that in case of underflow, arg is returned unmodified, and if that is not supported, an implementation-defined value no greater than DBL_MIN, FLT_MIN, and LDBL_MIN is returned.

Examples

#include <iostream>
#include <cmath>
 
int main()
{
    std::cout << "atan(1) = " << atan(1) << " 4*atan(1) = " << 4*atan(1) << '\n';
    // special values
    std::cout << "atan(Inf) = " << atan(INFINITY)
              << " 2*atan(Inf) = " << 2*atan(INFINITY) << '\n'
              << "atan(-0.0) = " << atan(-0.0) << '\n'
              << "atan(+0.0) = " << atan(0) << '\n';
}

Output:

atan(1) = 0.785398 4*atan(1) = 3.14159
atan(Inf) = 1.5708 2*atan(Inf) = 3.14159
atan(-0.0) = -0
atan(+0.0) = 0

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acosacosfacosl (C++11)(C++11)	computes arc cosine (\({\small\arccos{x} }\)arccos(x)) (function)
atan2atan2fatan2l (C++11)(C++11)	arc tangent, using signs to determine quadrants (function)
tantanftanl (C++11)(C++11)	computes tangent (\({\small\tan{x} }\)tan(x)) (function)
atan(std::complex) (C++11)	computes arc tangent of a complex number (\({\small\arctan{z} }\)arctan(z)) (function template)
atan(std::valarray)	applies the function `std::atan` to each element of valarray (function template)
C documentation for `atan`