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asin(3) Library Functions Manual asin(3)
asin, asinf, asinl - arc sine function
Math library (libm, -lm)
#include <math.h>
double asin(double x);
float asinf(float x);
long double asinl(long double x);
Feature Test Macro Requirements for glibc (see
feature_test_macros(7)):
asinf(), asinl():
_ISOC99_SOURCE || _POSIX_C_SOURCE >= 200112L
|| /* Since glibc 2.19: */ _DEFAULT_SOURCE
|| /* glibc <= 2.19: */ _BSD_SOURCE || _SVID_SOURCE
These functions calculate the principal value of the arc sine of
x; that is the value whose sine is x.
On success, these functions return the principal value of the arc
sine of x in radians; the return value is in the range
[-pi/2, pi/2].
If x is a NaN, a NaN is returned.
If x is +0 (-0), +0 (-0) is returned.
If x is outside the range [-1, 1], a domain error occurs, and a
NaN is returned.
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 outside the range [-1, 1]
errno is set to EDOM. An invalid floating-point exception
(FE_INVALID) is raised.
For an explanation of the terms used in this section, see
attributes(7).
┌──────────────────────────────────────┬───────────────┬─────────┐
│ Interface │ Attribute │ Value │
├──────────────────────────────────────┼───────────────┼─────────┤
│ asin(), asinf(), asinl() │ Thread safety │ MT-Safe │
└──────────────────────────────────────┴───────────────┴─────────┘
C11, POSIX.1-2008.
C99, POSIX.1-2001.
The variant returning double also conforms to SVr4, 4.3BSD, C89.
acos(3), atan(3), atan2(3), casin(3), cos(3), sin(3), tan(3)
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Pages that refer to this page: acos(3), atan2(3), atan(3), cos(3), sin(3), tan(3)
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