atan

Arc tangent

Description

float atan ( float $arg )

Returns the arc tangent of arg in radians. atan is the complementary function of tan, which means that a==tan(atan(a)) for every value of a that is within atan's range.

Parameters

arg

The argument to process

Return Values

The arc tangent of arg in radians.

See Also

  • tan
  • atanh
  • asin
  • acos