std:: arg (std::complex)

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Defined in header <complex>
template < class T >
T           arg ( const std:: complex < T > & z ) ;
(1)
Defined in header <complex>
(A)
float arg ( float f ) ;

double arg ( double f ) ;

long double arg ( long double f ) ;
(until C++23)
template < class FloatingPoint >

FloatingPoint

arg ( FloatingPoint f ) ;
(since C++23)
template < class Integer >
double arg ( Integer i ) ;
(B)
1) Calculates the phase angle (in radians) of the complex number z .
A,B) Additional overloads are provided for all integer and floating-point types, which are treated as complex numbers with zero imaginary component.
(since C++11)

Parameters

z - complex value
f - floating-point value
i - integer value

Return value

1) std:: atan2 ( std:: imag ( z ) , std:: real ( z ) ) . If no errors occur, this is the phase angle of z in the interval [−π; π] .
A) Zero if f is positive or +0, π if f is negative or -0, NaN otherwise.
B) Zero if i is non-negative, π if it is negative.

Notes

The additional overloads are not required to be provided exactly as (A,B) . They only need to be sufficient to ensure that for their argument num :

  • If num has a standard (until C++23) floating-point type T , then std :: arg ( num ) has the same effect as std :: arg ( std:: complex < T > ( num ) ) .
  • Otherwise, if num has an integer type, then std :: arg ( num ) has the same effect as std :: arg ( std:: complex < double > ( num ) ) .

Example

#include <complex>
#include <iostream>
 
int main() 
{
    std::complex<double> z1(1, 0);
    std::complex<double> z2(0, 0);
    std::complex<double> z3(0, 1);
    std::complex<double> z4(-1, 0);
    std::complex<double> z5(-1, -0.0);
    double f = 1.;
    int i = -1;
 
    std::cout << "phase angle of " << z1 << " is " << std::arg(z1) << '\n'
              << "phase angle of " << z2 << " is " << std::arg(z2) << '\n'
              << "phase angle of " << z3 << " is " << std::arg(z3) << '\n'
              << "phase angle of " << z4 << " is " << std::arg(z4) << '\n'
              << "phase angle of " << z5 << " is " << std::arg(z5) << " "
                 "(the other side of the cut)\n"
              << "phase angle of " << f << " is " << std::arg(f) << '\n'
              << "phase angle of " << i << " is " << std::arg(i) << '\n';
 
}

Output:

phase angle of (1,0) is 0
phase angle of (0,0) is 0
phase angle of (0,1) is 1.5708
phase angle of (-1,0) is 3.14159
phase angle of (-1,-0) is -3.14159 (the other side of the cut)
phase angle of 1 is 0
phase angle of -1 is 3.14159

See also

returns the magnitude of a complex number
(function template)
constructs a complex number from magnitude and phase angle
(function template)
(C++11) (C++11)
arc tangent, using signs to determine quadrants
(function)
applies the function std::atan2 to a valarray and a value
(function template)