xref: /netbsd/lib/libm/noieee_src/n_atan.c (revision c4a72b64)
1 /*	$NetBSD: n_atan.c,v 1.4 2002/06/15 00:10:17 matt Exp $	*/
2 /*
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34 
35 #ifndef lint
36 #if 0
37 static char sccsid[] = "@(#)atan.c	8.1 (Berkeley) 6/4/93";
38 #endif
39 #endif /* not lint */
40 
41 /* ATAN(X)
42  * RETURNS ARC TANGENT OF X
43  * DOUBLE PRECISION (IEEE DOUBLE 53 bits, VAX D FORMAT 56 bits)
44  * CODED IN C BY K.C. NG, 4/16/85, REVISED ON 6/10/85.
45  *
46  * Required kernel function:
47  *	atan2(y,x)
48  *
49  * Method:
50  *	atan(x) = atan2(x,1.0).
51  *
52  * Special case:
53  *	if x is NaN, return x itself.
54  *
55  * Accuracy:
56  * 1)  If atan2() uses machine PI, then
57  *
58  *	atan(x) returns (PI/pi) * (the exact arc tangent of x) nearly rounded;
59  *	and PI is the exact pi rounded to machine precision (see atan2 for
60  *      details):
61  *
62  *	in decimal:
63  *		pi = 3.141592653589793 23846264338327 .....
64  *    53 bits   PI = 3.141592653589793 115997963 ..... ,
65  *    56 bits   PI = 3.141592653589793 227020265 ..... ,
66  *
67  *	in hexadecimal:
68  *		pi = 3.243F6A8885A308D313198A2E....
69  *    53 bits   PI = 3.243F6A8885A30  =  2 * 1.921FB54442D18	error=.276ulps
70  *    56 bits   PI = 3.243F6A8885A308 =  4 * .C90FDAA22168C2    error=.206ulps
71  *
72  *	In a test run with more than 200,000 random arguments on a VAX, the
73  *	maximum observed error in ulps (units in the last place) was
74  *	0.86 ulps.      (comparing against (PI/pi)*(exact atan(x))).
75  *
76  * 2)  If atan2() uses true pi, then
77  *
78  *	atan(x) returns the exact atan(x) with error below about 2 ulps.
79  *
80  *	In a test run with more than 1,024,000 random arguments on a VAX, the
81  *	maximum observed error in ulps (units in the last place) was
82  *	0.85 ulps.
83  */
84 #include "mathimpl.h"
85 
86 double
87 atan(double x)
88 {
89 	double one=1.0;
90 	return(atan2(x,one));
91 }
92