cos()

Calculates the cosine of an angle.

Library Documentation

double cos(double x)

Compute the cosine of an angle, in radians.

Parameters:

• x -

  The radian measure of the angle.

Return:

The cosine of x. This value will be between -1 and 1.

Arduino Compatibility

The Maple cos() implementation is compatible with Arduino.

Note that the Maple implementation comes from newlib, while Arduino’s is that of avr-libc.

See Also

• sin()
• tan()
• float
• double

License and Attribution

Portions of this page were adapted from the Arduino Reference Documentation, which is released under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 License.