1.\" Copyright (c) 1991 The Regents of the University of California. 2.\" All rights reserved. 3.\" 4.\" @(#)sin.3 6.7 (Berkeley) 4/19/91 5.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without 6.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions 7.\" are met: 8.\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright 9.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. 10.\" 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright 11.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the 12.\" documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. 13.\" 3. All advertising materials mentioning features or use of this software 14.\" must display the following acknowledgement: 15.\" This product includes software developed by the University of 16.\" California, Berkeley and its contributors. 17.\" 4. Neither the name of the University nor the names of its contributors 18.\" may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software 19.\" without specific prior written permission. 20.\" 21.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE REGENTS AND CONTRIBUTORS ``AS IS'' AND 22.\" ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE 23.\" IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE 24.\" ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE REGENTS OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE 25.\" FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL 26.\" DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS 27.\" OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) 28.\" HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT 29.\" LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY 30.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF 31.\" SUCH DAMAGE. 32.\" 33.\" from: @(#)sin.3 6.7 (Berkeley) 4/19/91 34.\" $FreeBSD$ 35.\" 36.Dd April 19, 1991 37.Dt SIN 3 38.Os 39.Sh NAME 40.Nm sin , 41.Nm sinf 42.Nd sine functions 43.Sh LIBRARY 44.Lb libm 45.Sh SYNOPSIS 46.In math.h 47.Ft double 48.Fn sin "double x" 49.Ft float 50.Fn sinf "float x" 51.Sh DESCRIPTION 52The 53.Fn sin 54and the 55.Fn sinf 56functions compute the sine of 57.Fa x 58(measured in radians). 59A large magnitude argument may yield a result with little 60or no significance. 61.Sh RETURN VALUES 62The 63.Fn sin 64and the 65.Fn sinf 66functions return the sine value. 67.Sh SEE ALSO 68.Xr acos 3 , 69.Xr asin 3 , 70.Xr atan 3 , 71.Xr atan2 3 , 72.Xr cos 3 , 73.Xr cosh 3 , 74.Xr math 3 , 75.Xr sinh 3 , 76.Xr tan 3 , 77.Xr tanh 3 78.Sh STANDARDS 79The 80.Fn sin 81function conforms to 82.St -isoC . 83