NAME

       atan - return the arc-tangent of the parameters

DECLARATION

       genType atan(genType y, genType x);

       genType atan(genType y_over_x);

PARAMETERS

       y
           Specify the numerator of the fraction whose arctangent to return.

       x
           Specify the denominator of the fraction whose arctangent to return.

       y_over_x
           Specify the fraction whose arctangent to return.

DESCRIPTION

       atan returns either the angle whose trigonometric arctangent is $y \over x$ or y_over_x,
       depending on which overload is invoked. In the first overload, the signs of $y$ and $x$
       are used to determine the quadrant that the angle lies in. The value returned by atan in
       this case is in the range $[-\pi,\pi]$. The result is undefined if $x = 0$.

       For the second overload, atan returns the angle whose tangent is y_over_x. The value
       returned in this case is in the range $[-{\pi \over 2 },{\pi \over 2}]$.

VERSION SUPPORT

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       │         │        OpenGL Shading Language Version                                            │
       ├─────────┼──────┬──────┬──────┬──────┬──────┬──────┬──────┬──────┬──────┬──────┬──────┬──────┤
       │Function │ 1.10 │ 1.20 │ 1.30 │ 1.40 │ 1.50 │ 3.30 │ 4.00 │ 4.10 │ 4.20 │ 4.30 │ 4.40 │ 4.50 │
       │Name     │      │      │      │      │      │      │      │      │      │      │      │      │
       ├─────────┼──────┼──────┼──────┼──────┼──────┼──────┼──────┼──────┼──────┼──────┼──────┼──────┤
       │atan     │  ✔   │  ✔   │  ✔   │  ✔   │  ✔   │  ✔   │  ✔   │  ✔   │  ✔   │  ✔   │  ✔   │  ✔   │
       └─────────┴──────┴──────┴──────┴──────┴──────┴──────┴──────┴──────┴──────┴──────┴──────┴──────┘

SEE ALSO

       sin(), cos(), tan()

COPYRIGHT

       Copyright © 2011-2014 Khronos Group. This material may be distributed subject to the terms
       and conditions set forth in the Open Publication License, v 1.0, 8 June 1999.
       http://opencontent.org/openpub/.

COPYRIGHT

       Copyright © 2011-2014 Khronos Group

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