Intel® Fortran Compiler 16.0 User and Reference Guide

ATAN

Elemental Intrinsic Function (Generic): Produces the arctangent of an argument.

result = ATAN (x)

x

(Input) Must be of type real.

Results

The result type and kind is the same as x and is expressed in radians. The value lies in the range -pi/2 to pi/2.

Specific Name

Argument Type

Result Type

ATAN

REAL(4)

REAL(4)

DATAN

REAL(8)

REAL(8)

QATAN

REAL(16)

REAL(16)

Example

ATAN (1.5874993) has the value 1.008666.