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31.Dd $Mdocdate: November 3 2013 $
32.Dt ASIN 3
33.Os
34.Sh NAME
35.Nm asin ,
36.Nm asinf ,
37.Nm asinl
38.Nd arc sine functions
39.Sh SYNOPSIS
40.In math.h
41.Ft double
42.Fn asin "double x"
43.Ft float
44.Fn asinf "float x"
45.Ft long double
46.Fn asinl "long double x"
47.Sh DESCRIPTION
48The
49.Fn asin
50function computes the principal value of the arc sine of
51.Fa x
52in the range
53.Bk -words
54.Bq -\*(Pi/2, +\*(Pi/2 .
55.Ek
56The
57.Fn asinf
58function is a single precision version of
59.Fn asin .
60The
61.Fn asinl
62function is an extended precision version of
63.Fn asin .
64.Sh RETURN VALUES
65If |x|>1,
66.Fn asin "x" ,
67.Fn asinf "x"
68and
69.Fn asinl "x"
70return \*(Na and set the global variable
71.Va errno
72to EDOM.
73.Sh SEE ALSO
74.Xr acos 3 ,
75.Xr atan 3 ,
76.Xr atan2 3 ,
77.Xr cos 3 ,
78.Xr cosh 3 ,
79.Xr sin 3 ,
80.Xr sinh 3 ,
81.Xr tan 3 ,
82.Xr tanh 3
83