This manual page is part of the POSIX Programmer's Manual. The Linux implementation of this interface

       These functions may lose accuracy when their argument is near an odd multiple of π/2 or is far from 0.

       On  error,  the  expressions  (math_errhandling & MATH_ERRNO) and (math_errhandling & MATH_ERREXCEPT) are
       independent of each other, but at least one of them must be non-zero.

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       Specifications  Issue  7, 2018 Edition, Copyright (C) 2018 by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics
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       The  functionality  described  on  this  reference  page is aligned with the ISO C standard. Any conflict
       between the requirements described  here  and  the  ISO C  standard  is  unintentional.  This  volume  of
       POSIX.1‐2017 defers to the ISO C standard.

       These functions shall compute the cosine of their argument x, measured in radians.

       An   application   wishing   to   check   for  error  situations  should  set  errno  to  zero  and  call
       feclearexcept(FE_ALL_EXCEPT) before  calling  these  functions.  On  return,  if  errno  is  non-zero  or
       fetestexcept(FE_INVALID | FE_DIVBYZERO | FE_OVERFLOW | FE_UNDERFLOW) is non-zero, an error has occurred.

       These functions shall fail if:

       Domain Error
                   The x argument is ±Inf.

                   If  the  integer  expression (math_errhandling & MATH_ERRNO) is non-zero, then errno shall be
                   set to [EDOM].  If the integer expression (math_errhandling &  MATH_ERREXCEPT)  is  non-zero,
                   then the invalid floating-point exception shall be raised.

       Thefollowingsectionsareinformative.

TakingtheCosineofa45-DegreeAngle
           #include <math.h>
           ...
           double radians = 45 * M_PI / 180;
           double result;
           ...
           result = cos(radians);

       None.

       cos, cosf, cosl — cosine function

       This  manual  page  is part of the POSIX Programmer's Manual.  The Linux implementation of this interface
       may differ (consult the corresponding Linux manual page for details of Linux behavior), or the  interface
       may not be implemented on Linux.

       None.

       Upon successful completion, these functions shall return the cosine of x.

       If x is NaN, a NaN shall be returned.

       If x is ±0, the value 1.0 shall be returned.

       If x is ±Inf, a domain error shall occur, and a NaN shall be returned.

acos(), feclearexcept(), fetestexcept(), isnan(), sin(), tan()

       The Base Definitions volume of POSIX.1‐2017, Section4.20, TreatmentofErrorConditionsforMathematicalFunctions, <math.h>

       #include <math.h>

       double cos(double x);
       float cosf(float x);
       long double cosl(long double x);