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.\" $OpenBSD: atan2.3,v 1.17 2015/01/15 19:06:31 schwarze Exp $
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.\" from: @(#)atan2.3 5.1 (Berkeley) 5/2/91
.\"
.Dd $Mdocdate: January 15 2015 $
.Dt ATAN2 3
.Os
.Sh NAME
.Nm atan2 ,
.Nm atan2f ,
.Nm atan2l
.Nd arc tangent functions of two variables
.Sh SYNOPSIS
.In math.h
.Ft double
.Fn atan2 "double y" "double x"
.Ft float
.Fn atan2f "float y" "float x"
.Ft long double
.Fn atan2l "long double y" "long double x"
.Sh DESCRIPTION
The
.Fn atan2
function computes the principal value of the arc tangent of
.Ar y/ Ns Ar x ,
using the signs of both arguments to determine the quadrant of
the return value.
The
.Fn atan2f
function is a single precision version of
.Fn atan2 .
The
.Fn atan2l
function is an extended precision version of
.Fn atan2 .
.Sh RETURN VALUES
The
.Fn atan2 ,
.Fn atan2f
and
.Fn atan2l
functions, if successful,
return the arc tangent of
.Ar y/ Ns Ar x
in the range
.Bk -words
.Bq \&- Ns \*(Pi , \&+ Ns \*(Pi
.Ek
radians.
If both
.Ar x
and
.Ar y
are zero, the global variable
.Va errno
is set to
.Er EDOM .
On the VAX:
.Bl -column atan_(y,x)_:=____ sign(y)_(Pi_atan2(Xy_xX))___
.It Fn atan2 y x No := Ta
.Fn atan y/x Ta
if
.Ar x
> 0,
.It Ta sign( Ns Ar y Ns )*(\*(Pi -
.Fn atan "\*(Bay/x\*(Ba" ) Ta
if
.Ar x
< 0,
.It Ta
.No 0 Ta
if
.Ar x
=
.Ar y
= 0, or
.It Ta
.Pf sign( Ar y Ns )*\*(Pi/2 Ta
if
.Ar x
= 0,
.Ar y
!= 0.
.El
.Sh NOTES
The function
.Fn atan2
defines "if x > 0,"
.Fn atan2 0 0
= 0 on a VAX despite that previously
.Fn atan2 0 0
may have generated an error message.
The reasons for assigning a value to
.Fn atan2 0 0
are these:
.Bl -enum -offset indent
.It
Programs that test arguments to avoid computing
.Fn atan2 0 0
must be indifferent to its value.
Programs that require it to be invalid are vulnerable
to diverse reactions to that invalidity on diverse computer systems.
.It
The
.Fn atan2
function is used mostly to convert from rectangular (x,y)
to polar
.if n\
(r,theta)
.if t\
(r,\(*h)
coordinates that must satisfy x =
.if n\
r\(**cos theta
.if t\
r\(**cos\(*h
and y =
.if n\
r\(**sin theta.
.if t\
r\(**sin\(*h.
These equations are satisfied when (x=0,y=0)
is mapped to
.if n \
(r=0,theta=0)
.if t \
(r=0,\(*h=0)
on a VAX.
In general, conversions to polar coordinates
should be computed thus:
.Bd -unfilled -offset indent
.if n \{\
r := hypot(x,y); ... := sqrt(x\(**x+y\(**y)
theta := atan2(y,x).
.\}
.if t \{\
r := hypot(x,y); ... := \(sr(x\u\s82\s10\d+y\u\s82\s10\d)
\(*h := atan2(y,x).
.\}
.Ed
.It
The foregoing formulas need not be altered to cope in a
reasonable way with signed zeros and infinities
on a machine that conforms to IEEE 754 ;
the versions of
.Xr hypot 3
and
.Fn atan2
provided for
such a machine are designed to handle all cases.
That is why
.Fn atan2 \(+-0 \-0
= \(+-\*(Pi
for instance.
In general the formulas above are equivalent to these:
.Bd -unfilled -offset indent
.if n \
r := sqrt(x\(**x+y\(**y); if r = 0 then x := copysign(1,x);
.if t \
r := \(sr(x\(**x+y\(**y);\0\0if r = 0 then x := copysign(1,x);
.Ed
.El
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr acos 3 ,
.Xr asin 3 ,
.Xr atan 3 ,
.Xr cos 3 ,
.Xr cosh 3 ,
.Xr sin 3 ,
.Xr sinh 3 ,
.Xr tan 3 ,
.Xr tanh 3
.Sh STANDARDS
The
.Fn atan2
function conforms to
.St -ansiC .
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