.\" Copyright 2002 Walter Harms (walter.harms@informatik.uni-oldenburg.de) .\" Distributed under GPL .\" .TH CACOS 3 2002-07-28 "" "Linux Programmer's Manual" .SH NAME cacos, cacosf, cacosl \- complex arc cosine .SH SYNOPSIS .B #include .sp .BI "double complex cacos(double complex " z ); .br .BI "float complex cacosf(float complex " z ); .br .BI "long double complex cacosl(long double complex " z ); .sp Link with \fI\-lm\fP. .SH DESCRIPTION The .BR cacos () function calculates the complex acos(). If y = cacos(z), then z = ccos(y). The real part of y is chosen in the interval [0,pi]. .LP One has cacos(z) = \-i clog(z + csqrt(z * z \- 1)). .SH "CONFORMING TO" C99 .SH "SEE ALSO" .BR ccos (3), .BR clog (3), .BR complex (7)