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| Functions and CALL Routines |
COS Function
Returns the cosine.
| Category: | Trigonometric |
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| Examples |
Syntax |
| COS (argument) |
Arguments
- argument
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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, COS returns a missing value.
| Examples |
| SAS Statements | Results |
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x=cos(0.5); |
0.8775825619 |
x=cos(0); |
1 |
x=cos(3.14159/3); |
0.500000766 |
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