TAN Function
Returns the tangent.
| Categories: | Trigonometric |
| CAS |
Syntax
TAN(argument)
Required Argument
argument
specifies a numeric
constant, variable, or expression and is expressed in radians. If
the magnitude of argument is
so great that mod(argument,pi) is accurate
to less than about three decimal places, TAN returns a missing value.
| Restriction | cannot be an odd multiple of π /2 |
Example
The following SAS statements
produce these results:
|
SAS Statement
|
Result
|
|---|---|
x=tan(0.5); |
0.5463024898 |
x=tan(0); |
0 |
x=tan(3.14159/3); |
1.7320472695 |
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Last updated: March 16, 2017