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casinl

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complex arc sine

Library functionsmanpages-dev 6.9.1-1also documents casin, casinf
#include <complex.h> double complex casin(double complex z); float complex casinf(float complex z); long double complex casinl(long double complex z);

LIBRARY

Math library (libm, -lm)

DESCRIPTION

These functions calculate the complex arc sine of z. If y = casin(z), then z = csin(y). The real part of y is chosen in the interval [-pi/2,pi/2].

One has:


casin(z) = -i clog(iz + csqrt(1 - z * z))

ATTRIBUTES

For an explanation of the terms used in this section, see attributes(7).

Interface Attribute Value
casin (), casinf (), casinl () Thread safety MT-Safe

STANDARDS

C11, POSIX.1-2008.

HISTORY

glibc 2.1. C99, POSIX.1-2001.

See also