NAME acos - inverse trigonometric cosine SYNOPSIS acos(x [,eps]) TYPES x real, -1 <= x <= 1 eps nonzero real, defaults to epsilon() return real DESCRIPTION Returns the acos of x to a multiple of eps with error less in absolute value than .75 * eps. v = acos(x) is the number in [0, pi] for which cos(v) = x. EXAMPLE ; print acos(.5, 1e-5), acos(.5, 1e-10), acos(.5, 1e-15), acos(.5, 1e-20) 1.0472 1.0471975512 1.047197551196598 1.04719755119659774615 LIMITS none LINK LIBRARY NUMBER *qacos(NUMBER *x, NUMBER *eps) SEE ALSO asin, atan, asec, acsc, acot, epsilon ## Copyright (C) 1999 Landon Curt Noll ## ## Calc is open software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under ## the terms of the version 2.1 of the GNU Lesser General Public License ## as published by the Free Software Foundation. ## ## Calc is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ## ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY ## or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU Lesser General ## Public License for more details. ## ## A copy of version 2.1 of the GNU Lesser General Public License is ## distributed with calc under the filename COPYING-LGPL. You should have ## received a copy with calc; if not, write to Free Software Foundation, Inc. ## 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA. ## ## @(#) $Revision: 30.1 $ ## @(#) $Id: acos,v 30.1 2007/03/16 11:10:42 chongo Exp $ ## @(#) $Source: /usr/local/src/cmd/calc/help/RCS/acos,v $ ## ## Under source code control: 1994/03/19 01:40:23 ## File existed as early as: 1994 ## ## chongo /\oo/\ http://www.isthe.com/chongo/ ## Share and enjoy! :-) http://www.isthe.com/chongo/tech/comp/calc/