ACOS

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

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>>-ACOS(numeric-expression)------------------------------------><

The schema is SYSIBM.

The argument must be an expression that returns the value of any built-in numeric data type except for DECFLOAT. The value must be greater than or equal to -1 and less than or equal to 1. 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 ACOSINE is DECIMAL(10,9) with a value of 0.070737202. The following statement:
   SELECT ACOS(:ACOSINE)
     FROM SYSIBM.SYSDUMMY1;
returns a double precision floating-point number with an approximate value of 1.49.