COS scalar function

The COS function returns the cosine of the argument, where the argument is an angle, expressed in radians. The COS and ACOS functions are inverse operations.

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The schema is SYSIBM.

The argument must be an expression that returns the value of any built-in numeric data type that is not DECFLOAT. If the argument is not a double precision floating-point number, it is converted to one for processing by the function.

The result of the function is a double precision floating-point number.

The result can be null; if the argument is null, the result is the null value.

Example: Assume that host variable COSINE is DECIMAL(2,1) with a value of 1.5. The following statement returns a double precision floating-point number with an approximate value of 0.07: 
   SELECT COS(:COSINE)
     FROM SYSIBM.SYSDUMMY1;