cos(3)

cos3

Cosine functions

Usage

#include <math.h>

double

cos(double x);

float

cosf(float x);

long double

cosl(long double x);

Library

Math Library (libm, -lm)

Overview

The cos(), cosf(), and cosl() functions compute the cosine of x (measured in radians). A large magnitude argument may yield a result with little or no significance. For a discussion of error due to roundoff, see math(3).

Return values

The cos(), cosf(), and cosl() functions return the cosine value.

Releases

87 releases since FreeBSD 2.0.5-RELEASE; the text changed 45 times.

  1. 2.0.5
  2. 2.1.5–2.1.7.1
  3. 2.2.2–2.2.5
  4. 2.2.6–2.2.8
  5. 2.2.9
  6. 3.0–3.2
  7. 3.3–3.5.1
  8. 4.0–4.2
  9. 4.3
  10. 4.4
  11. 4.5–4.11
  12. 5.0–6.2
  13. 6.3
  14. 6.4
  15. 7.0
  16. 7.1
  17. 7.2
  18. 7.3
  19. 7.4
  20. 8.0
  21. 8.1
  22. 8.2
  23. 8.3
  24. 8.4
  25. 9.0
  26. 9.1
  27. 9.2
  28. 9.3
  29. 10.0
  30. 10.1
  31. 10.2
  32. 10.3
  33. 10.4
  34. 11.0
  35. 11.1
  36. 11.2
  37. 11.3
  38. 11.4
  39. 12.0
  40. 12.1
  41. 12.2
  42. 12.3
  43. 12.4
  44. 13.0–13.2
  45. 13.3–14.5
  46. 15.0–16.0

Standards

These functions conform to ISO/IEC 9899:1999 (“ISO C99”).

History

The cos() function first appeared in Version 1 AT&T UNIX.

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