.\" Modified 2002-07-27 by Walter Harms
.\" (walter.harms@informatik.uni-oldenburg.de)
.\"
-.TH TAN 3 2010-09-11 "" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
+.TH TAN 3 2014-01-06 "" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
.SH NAME
tan, tanf, tanl \- tangent function
.SH SYNOPSIS
.SH DESCRIPTION
The
.BR tan ()
-function returns the tangent of \fIx\fP, where \fIx\fP is
+function returns the tangent of
+.IR x ,
+where
+.I x
+is
given in radians.
.SH RETURN VALUE
On success, these functions return the tangent of
An overflow floating-point exception
.RB ( FE_OVERFLOW )
is raised.
+.SH ATTRIBUTES
+.SS Multithreading (see pthreads(7))
+The
+.BR tan (),
+.BR tanf (),
+and
+.BR tanl ()
+functions are thread-safe.
.SH CONFORMING TO
C99, POSIX.1-2001.
The variant returning
.BR cos (3),
.BR ctan (3),
.BR sin (3)
+.SH COLOPHON
+This page is part of release 3.79 of the Linux
+.I man-pages
+project.
+A description of the project,
+information about reporting bugs,
+and the latest version of this page,
+can be found at
+\%http://www.kernel.org/doc/man\-pages/.