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.\" 4. Neither the name of the University nor the names of its contributors 14.\" may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software 15.\" without specific prior written permission. 16.\" 17.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE REGENTS AND CONTRIBUTORS ``AS IS'' AND 18.\" ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE 19.\" IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE 20.\" ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE REGENTS OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE 21.\" FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL 22.\" DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS 23.\" OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) 24.\" HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT 25.\" LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY 26.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF 27.\" SUCH DAMAGE. 28.\" 29.\" from: @(#)sin.3 6.7 (Berkeley) 4/19/91 30.\" $FreeBSD$ 31.\" 32.Dd January 24, 2008 33.Dt SIN 3 34.Os 35.Sh NAME 36.Nm sin , 37.Nm sinf , 38.Nm sinl 39.Nd sine functions 40.Sh LIBRARY 41.Lb libm 42.Sh SYNOPSIS 43.In math.h 44.Ft double 45.Fn sin "double x" 46.Ft float 47.Fn sinf "float x" 48.Ft long double 49.Fn sinl "long double x" 50.Sh DESCRIPTION 51The 52.Fn sin , 53.Fn sinf , 54and 55.Fn sinl 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 , 64.Fn sinf , 65and 66.Fn sinl 67functions return the sine value. 68.Sh SEE ALSO 69.Xr acos 3 , 70.Xr asin 3 , 71.Xr atan 3 , 72.Xr atan2 3 , 73.Xr cos 3 , 74.Xr cosh 3 , 75.Xr csin 3 , 76.Xr math 3 , 77.Xr sinh 3 , 78.Xr tan 3 , 79.Xr tanh 3 80.Sh STANDARDS 81These functions conform to 82.St -isoC-99 . 83