NAME

fixtan - Fixed point tangent of binary angles. Allegro game programming library.

SYNOPSIS

#include <allegro.h>

fixed fixtan(fixed x);

DESCRIPTION

This function finds the tangent of a value using a lookup table. The input value must be a fixed point binary angle. Example:

   fixed angle, res_a, res_b;


   float dif;


   


   angle = itofix(37);


   /* Prove that tan(angle) == sin(angle) / cos(angle). */


   res_a = fixdiv(fixsin(angle), fixcos(angle));


   res_b = fixtan(angle);


   dif = fixtof(fixsub(res_a, res_b));


   allegro_message("Precision error: %f\n", dif);

RETURN VALUE

Returns the tangent of a fixed point binary format angle. The return value will be in radians.

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