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TAND Function

Purpose

Returns the tangent of the specified angle expressed in degrees.

Syntax

TAND(x)

Parameters

x is a floating-point value representing an angle and cannot be an odd multiple of 90.

Description

The TAND function returns the tangent of the angle x expressed in degrees. The result has the same data type as x.

Examples

TAND(45.0)    /* returns 1.0 */

Restrictions

A TAND operation on floating-point decimal data is actually performed using the floating-point binary operation. Thus, the range of the operands and the result of the operation are limited to the ranges for floating-point binary numbers.

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