ATAN2(3) Linux Programmer's Manual ATAN2(3)

NAME
       atan2, atan2f, atan2l - arc tangent function of two variables

SYNOPSIS
       #include 

       double atan2(double y, double x);
       float atan2f(float y, float x);
       long double atan2l(long double y, long double x);

       Link with -lm.

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

       atan2f(), atan2l():
              BSDSOURCE || SVIDSOURCE || XOPENSOURCE >= 600 ||
              ISOC99SOURCE || POSIXCSOURCE >= 200112L;
              or cc -std=c99

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  tan‐
       gent 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 infin‐
       ity, +pi (-pi) is returned.

       If y is a finite value greater (less) than 0, and x is positive  infin‐
       ity, +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  infin‐
       ity, +3*pi/4 (-3*pi/4) is returned.

       If  y is positive infinity (negative infinity) and x is positive infin‐
       ity, +pi/4 (-pi/4) is returned.

ERRORS
       No errors occur.

ATTRIBUTES
       For  an  explanation  of  the  terms  used   in   this   section,   see
       attributes(7).

       ┌─────────────────────────────┬───────────────┬─────────┐
       │Interface                    │ Attribute     │ Value   │
       ├─────────────────────────────┼───────────────┼─────────┤
       │atan2(), atan2f(), atan2l()  │ Thread safety │ MT-Safe │
       └─────────────────────────────┴───────────────┴─────────┘
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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                                  2010-09-20                          ATAN2(3)