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.\" Copyright 1993 David Metcalfe (david@prism.demon.co.uk)
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.\" Linux libc source code
.\" Lewine's _POSIX Programmer's Guide_ (O'Reilly & Associates, 1991)
.\" 386BSD man pages
.\" Modified 1993-07-24 by Rik Faith (faith@cs.unc.edu)
.\" Modified 2002-07-27 by Walter Harms
.\" (walter.harms@informatik.uni-oldenburg.de)
.\"
.TH ATAN2 3 2002-07-27 "" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
.SH NAME
atan2, atan2f, atan2l \- arc tangent function of two variables
.SH SYNOPSIS
.nf
.B #include <math.h>
.sp
.BI "double atan2(double " y ", double " x );
.br
.BI "float atan2f(float " y ", float " x );
.br
.BI "long double atan2l(long double " y ", long double " x );
.sp
.fi
Link with \fI\-lm\fP.
.SH DESCRIPTION
The
.BR atan2 ()
function calculates the arc tangent of the two
variables \fIx\fP and \fIy\fP.
It is similar to calculating the
arc tangent of \fIy\ /\ x\fP, except that the signs of both
arguments are used to determine the quadrant of the result.
.SH "RETURN VALUE"
The
.BR atan2 ()
function returns the result in radians, which
is between \-PI and PI (inclusive).
.SH "CONFORMING TO"
SVr4, POSIX.1-2001, 4.3BSD, C89.
The
.I float
and
.I "long double"
variants are C99 requirements.
.SH "SEE ALSO"
.BR acos (3),
.BR asin (3),
.BR atan (3),
.BR cos (3),
.BR sin (3),
.BR tan (3)
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