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- /*
- * Copyright (c) 1985 Regents of the University of California.
- * All rights reserved.
- *
- * Redistribution and use in source and binary forms are permitted
- * provided that this notice is preserved and that due credit is given
- * to the University of California at Berkeley. The name of the University
- * may not be used to endorse or promote products derived from this
- * software without specific prior written permission. This software
- * is provided ``as is'' without express or implied warranty.
- *
- * All recipients should regard themselves as participants in an ongoing
- * research project and hence should feel obligated to report their
- * experiences (good or bad) with these elementary function codes, using
- * the sendbug(8) program, to the authors.
- */
-
- #ifndef lint
- static char sccsid[] = "@(#)atan.c 5.2 (Berkeley) 4/29/88";
- #endif /* not lint */
-
- /* ATAN(X)
- * RETURNS ARC TANGENT OF X
- * DOUBLE PRECISION (IEEE DOUBLE 53 bits, VAX D FORMAT 56 bits)
- * CODED IN C BY K.C. NG, 4/16/85, REVISED ON 6/10/85.
- *
- * Required kernel function:
- * atan2(y,x)
- *
- * Method:
- * atan(x) = atan2(x,1.0).
- *
- * Special case:
- * if x is NaN, return x itself.
- *
- * Accuracy:
- * 1) If atan2() uses machine PI, then
- *
- * atan(x) returns (PI/pi) * (the exact arc tangent of x) nearly rounded;
- * and PI is the exact pi rounded to machine precision (see atan2 for
- * details):
- *
- * in decimal:
- * pi = 3.141592653589793 23846264338327 .....
- * 53 bits PI = 3.141592653589793 115997963 ..... ,
- * 56 bits PI = 3.141592653589793 227020265 ..... ,
- *
- * in hexadecimal:
- * pi = 3.243F6A8885A308D313198A2E....
- * 53 bits PI = 3.243F6A8885A30 = 2 * 1.921FB54442D18 error=.276ulps
- * 56 bits PI = 3.243F6A8885A308 = 4 * .C90FDAA22168C2 error=.206ulps
- *
- * In a test run with more than 200,000 random arguments on a VAX, the
- * maximum observed error in ulps (units in the last place) was
- * 0.86 ulps. (comparing against (PI/pi)*(exact atan(x))).
- *
- * 2) If atan2() uses true pi, then
- *
- * atan(x) returns the exact atan(x) with error below about 2 ulps.
- *
- * In a test run with more than 1,024,000 random arguments on a VAX, the
- * maximum observed error in ulps (units in the last place) was
- * 0.85 ulps.
- */
-
- double atan(x)
- double x;
- {
- double atan2(),one=1.0;
- return(atan2(x,one));
- }
-