.\" Copyright 2002 Walter Harms (walter.harms@informatik.uni-oldenburg.de)
+.\" and Copyright (C) 2011 Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gamil.com>
.\" Distributed under GPL
.\"
-.TH CACOS 3 2008-08-11 "" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
+.TH CACOS 3 2011-09-15 "" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
.SH NAME
cacos, cacosf, cacosl \- complex arc cosine
.SH SYNOPSIS
One has:
.nf
- cacos(z) = \-i clog(z + csqrt(z * z \- 1))
+ cacos(z) = \-i * clog(z + i * csqrt(1 \- z * z))
.fi
.SH VERSIONS
These functions first appeared in glibc in version 2.1.
.SH "CONFORMING TO"
C99.
+.SH EXAMPLE
+.nf
+/* Link with "\-lm" */
+
+#include <complex.h>
+#include <stdlib.h>
+#include <unistd.h>
+#include <stdio.h>
+
+int
+main(int argc, char *argv[])
+{
+ double complex z, c, f;
+ double complex i = I;
+
+ if (argc != 3) {
+ fprintf(stderr, "Usage: %s <real> <imag>\\n", argv[0]);
+ exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
+ }
+
+ z = atof(argv[1]) + atof(argv[2]) * I;
+
+ c = cacos(z);
+
+ printf("cacos() = %6.3f %6.3f*i\\n", creal(c), cimag(c));
+
+ f = \-i * clog(z + i * csqrt(1 \- z * z));
+
+ printf("formula = %6.3f %6.3f*i\\n", creal(f), cimag(f));
+
+ exit(EXIT_SUCCESS);
+}
+.fi
.SH "SEE ALSO"
.BR ccos (3),
.BR clog (3),