COS
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.
- expression
- An expression that returns a value of any built-in numeric data type (except for DECFLOAT), character-string, or graphic-string data type. A string argument is cast to double-precision floating point before evaluating the function. For more information about converting strings to double-precision floating point, see DOUBLE_PRECISION or DOUBLE.
The data type of the result is double-precision floating point. If the argument can be null, the result can be null; if the argument is null, the result is the null value.
Example
- Assume the host variable COSINE is a DECIMAL(2,1) host variable
with a value of 1.5.
Returns the approximate value 0.07.SELECT COS(:COSINE) FROM SYSIBM.SYSDUMMY1