COS Function

Returns the cosine.

Category: Trigonometric

Syntax

COS (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, COS returns a missing value.

Example

The following SAS statements produce these results.
SAS Statement
Result
x=cos(0.5);
0.8775825619
x=cos(0);
1
x=cos(3.14159/3);
0.500000766