acos

Compute the arccosine of a double-precision floating-point number.

Installation

npm install @stdlib/math-base-special-acos

Usage

var acos = require( '@stdlib/math-base-special-acos' );

acos( x )

Computes the arccosine of a double-precision floating-point number (in radians).

var v = acos( 1.0 );
// returns 0.0

v = acos( 0.707 ); // ~pi/4
// returns ~0.7855

v = acos( 0.866 ); // ~pi/6
// returns ~0.5236

v = acos( NaN );
// returns NaN

The domain of x is restricted to [-1,1]. If |x| > 1, the function returns NaN.

var v = acos( -3.14 );
// returns NaN

Examples

var linspace = require( '@stdlib/array-base-linspace' );
var acos = require( '@stdlib/math-base-special-acos' );

var x = linspace( -1.0, 1.0, 100 );

var i;
for ( i = 0; i < x.length; i++ ) {
    console.log( acos( x[ i ] ) );
}

C APIs

Usage

#include "stdlib/math/base/special/acos.h"

stdlib_base_acos( x )

Computes the arccosine of a double-precision floating-point number (in radians).

double out = stdlib_base_acos( 1.0 );
// returns 0.0

out = stdlib_base_acos( 0.707 ); // ~pi/4
// returns ~0.7855

The function accepts the following arguments:

• x: [in] double input value (in radians).

double stdlib_base_acos( const double x );

Examples

#include "stdlib/math/base/special/acos.h"
#include <stdio.h>

int main( void ) {
    const double x[] = { -1.0, -0.78, -0.56, -0.33, -0.11, 0.11, 0.33, 0.56, 0.78, 1.0 };
    
    double v;
    int i;
    for ( i = 0; i < 10; i++ ) {
        v = stdlib_base_acos( x[ i ] );
        printf( "acos(%lf) = %lf\n", x[ i ], v );
    }
}

See Also

• @stdlib/math-base/special/acosh: compute the hyperbolic arccosine of a double-precision floating-point number.
• @stdlib/math-base/special/asin: compute the arcsine of a double-precision floating-point number.
• @stdlib/math-base/special/atan: compute the arctangent of a double-precision floating-point number.

Notice

This package is part of stdlib, a standard library for JavaScript and Node.js, with an emphasis on numerical and scientific computing. The library provides a collection of robust, high performance libraries for mathematics, statistics, streams, utilities, and more.

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