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Name

atan2, atan2f, atan2l — arc tangent function of two variables

Synopsis

#include <math.h>
double atan2( double y,
  double x);
 
float atan2f( float y,
  float x);
 
long double atan2l( long double y,
  long double x);
 
[Note] Note
Feature Test Macro Requirements for glibc (see feature_test_macros(7)):
atan2f(), atan2l():
_BSD_SOURCE || _SVID_SOURCE || _XOPEN_SOURCE >= 600 || _ISOC99_SOURCE || _POSIX_C_SOURCE >= 200112L;
or cc -std=c99
[Note] Note

Link with −lm.

DESCRIPTION

The atan2() function calculates the principal value of the arc tangent of y/x, using the signs of the two arguments to determine the quadrant of the result.

RETURN VALUE

On success, these functions return the principal value of the arc tangent of y/x in radians; the return value is in the range [−pi, pi].

If y is +0 (−0) and x is less than 0, +pi (−pi) is returned.

If y is +0 (−0) and x is greater than 0, +0 (−0) is returned.

If y is less than 0 and x is +0 or −0, −pi/2 is returned.

If y is greater than 0 and x is +0 or −0, pi/2 is returned.

If either x or y is NaN, a NaN is returned.

If y is +0 (−0) and x is −0, +pi (−pi) is returned.

If y is +0 (−0) and x is +0, +0 (−0) is returned.

If y is a finite value greater (less) than 0, and x is negative infinity, +pi (−pi) is returned.

If y is a finite value greater (less) than 0, and x is positive infinity, +0 (−0) is returned.

If y is positive infinity (negative infinity), and x is finite, pi/2 (−pi/2) is returned.

If y is positive infinity (negative infinity) and x is negative infinity, +3*pi/4 (−3*pi/4) is returned.

If y is positive infinity (negative infinity) and x is positive infinity, +pi/4 (−pi/4) is returned.

ERRORS

No errors occur.

CONFORMING TO

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

SEE ALSO

acos(3), asin(3), atan(3), carg(3), cos(3), sin(3), tan(3)

COLOPHON

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