SYNOPSIS

#include <math.h>

double sin(double x);

float sinf(float x);

long double sinl(long double x);

Link with -lm.

Feature Test Macro Requirements for glibc (see feature_test_macros(7)):

sinf(), sinl():

_BSD_SOURCE || _SVID_SOURCE || _XOPEN_SOURCE >= 600 || _ISOC99_SOURCE || _POSIX_C_SOURCE >= 200112L;

or cc -std=c99

DESCRIPTION

The sin() function returns the sine of x, where x is given in radians.

RETURN VALUE

On success, these functions return the sine 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.

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.

ATTRIBUTES

Multithreading (see pthreads(7))

The sin(), sinf(), and sinl() functions are thread-safe.

CONFORMING TO

C99, POSIX.1-2001. 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.

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COLOPHON

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