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sin - Sine of argument in radians

Syntax

Y = sin(X)

Description

Y = sin(X) returns the circular sine of the elements of X. The sin function operates element-wise on arrays. The function's domains and ranges include complex values. All angles are in radians.

Definitions

The sine of an angle is:

For complex x:

Examples

Graph the sine function over the domain .

x = -pi:0.01:pi;
plot(x,sin(x)), grid on

References

sin uses FDLIBM, which was developed at SunSoft, a Sun Microsystems, Inc. business, by Kwok C. Ng, and others. For information about FDLIBM, see http://www.netlib.org.

See Also

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