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Name

sin, sinf, sinl - sine function

Library

Math library ( libm ", " -lm )

Synopsis

#include <math.h> 
double sin(double  x );
float sinf(float x );
long double sinl(long double x );

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

sinf() sinl()

    _ISOC99_SOURCE || _POSIX_C_SOURCE >= 200112L
        || /* Since glibc 2.19: */ _DEFAULT_SOURCE
        || /* glibc <= 2.19: */ _BSD_SOURCE || _SVID_SOURCE

Description

These functions return 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

For an explanation of the terms used in this section, see attributes(7). allbox; lbx lb lb T{ sin()sinf()sinl()
InterfaceAttributeValue
T}Thread safetyMT-Safe

Standards

C11, POSIX.1-2008.

History

C99, POSIX.1-2001.

The variant returning double also conforms to SVr4, 4.3BSD, C89.

Bugs

Before glibc 2.10, the glibc implementation did not set errno to EDOM when a domain error occurred.

See Also

  1. acos(3),
  2. asin(3),
  3. atan(3),
  4. atan2(3),
  5. cos(3),
  6. csin(3),
  7. sincos(3),
  8. tan(3)