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title: floats / tan
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# tan

### NAME

    tan() - return the tangent of a float

### SYNOPSIS

    float tan( float f );

### DESCRIPTION

    Returns the tangent of its argument, 'f', measured in radians.

### SEE ALSO

    acos(3), asin(3), atan(3), cos(3), sin(3)

