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+.\" Copyright 1993 David Metcalfe (david@prism.demon.co.uk)
+.\"
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+.\" Since the Linux kernel and libraries are constantly changing, this
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+.\" Formatted or processed versions of this manual, if unaccompanied by
+.\" the source, must acknowledge the copyright and authors of this work.
+.\"
+.\" References consulted:
+.\" Linux libc source code
+.\" Lewine's _POSIX Programmer's Guide_ (O'Reilly & Associates, 1991)
+.\" 386BSD man pages
+.\" Modified 1993-07-24 by Rik Faith (faith@cs.unc.edu)
+.\" Modified 2002-07-27 by Walter Harms
+.\" (walter.harms@informatik.uni-oldenburg.de)
+.TH COS 3 2002-07-27 "" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
+.SH NAME
+cos, cosf, cosl \- cosine function
+.SH SYNOPSIS
+.nf
+.B #include <math.h>
+.sp
+.BI "double cos(double " x );
+.br
+.BI "float cosf(float " x );
+.br
+.BI "long double cosl(long double " x );
+.fi
+.sp
+Link with \-lm.
+.SH DESCRIPTION
+The \fBcos()\fP function returns the cosine of \fIx\fP, where \fIx\fP is
+given in radians.
+.SH "RETURN VALUE"
+The \fBcos()\fP function returns a value between \-1 and 1.
+.SH "CONFORMING TO"
+SVID 3, POSIX, BSD 4.3, ISO 9899.
+The float and the long double variants are C99 requirements.
+.SH "SEE ALSO"
+.BR acos (3),
+.BR asin (3),
+.BR atan (3),
+.BR atan2 (3),
+.BR sin (3),
+.BR tan (3)