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31.Dd December 7, 2017
32.Dt MATH 3
33.Os
34.Sh NAME
35.Nm math
36.Nd "floating-point mathematical library"
37.Sh LIBRARY
38.Lb libm
39.Sh SYNOPSIS
40.In math.h
41.Sh DESCRIPTION
42The math library includes the following components:
43.Bl -column "<complex.h>" "polymorphic (type-generic) versions of functions" -compact -offset indent
44.In math.h Ta basic routines and real-valued functions
45.In complex.h Ta complex number support
46.In tgmath.h Ta polymorphic (type-generic) versions of functions
47.In fenv.h Ta routines to control rounding and exceptions
48.El
49The rest of this manual page describes the functions provided by
50.In math.h .
51Please consult
52.Xr complex 3 ,
53.Xr tgmath 3 ,
54and
55.Xr fenv 3
56for information on the other components.
57.Sh "LIST OF FUNCTIONS"
58Each of the following
59.Vt double
60functions has a
61.Vt float
62counterpart with an
63.Ql f
64appended to the name and a
65.Vt "long double"
66counterpart with an
67.Ql l
68appended.
69As an example, the
70.Vt float
71and
72.Vt "long double"
73counterparts of
74.Ft double
75.Fn acos "double x"
76are
77.Ft float
78.Fn acosf "float x"
79and
80.Ft "long double"
81.Fn acosl "long double x" ,
82respectively.
83The classification macros and silent order predicates are type generic and
84should not be suffixed with
85.Ql f
86or
87.Ql l .
88.de Cl
89.Bl -column "isgreaterequal" "bessel function of the second kind of the order 0"
90.Em "Name	Description"
91..
92.Ss Algebraic Functions
93.Cl
94cbrt	cube root
95fma	fused multiply-add
96hypot	Euclidean distance
97sqrt	square root
98.El
99.Ss Classification Macros
100.Cl
101fpclassify	classify a floating-point value
102isfinite	determine whether a value is finite
103isinf	determine whether a value is infinite
104isnan	determine whether a value is \*(Na
105isnormal	determine whether a value is normalized
106.El
107.Ss Exponent Manipulation Functions
108.Cl
109frexp	extract exponent and mantissa
110ilogb	extract exponent
111ldexp	multiply by power of 2
112logb	extract exponent
113scalbln	adjust exponent
114scalbn	adjust exponent
115.El
116.Ss Extremum- and Sign-Related Functions
117.Cl
118copysign	copy sign bit
119fabs	absolute value
120fdim	positive difference
121fmax	maximum function
122fmin	minimum function
123signbit	extract sign bit
124.El
125.Ss Not a Number Functions
126.Cl
127nan	generate a quiet \*(Na
128.El
129.Ss Residue and Rounding Functions
130.Cl
131ceil	integer no less than
132floor	integer no greater than
133fmod	positive remainder
134llrint	round to integer in fixed-point format
135llround	round to nearest integer in fixed-point format
136lrint	round to integer in fixed-point format
137lround	round to nearest integer in fixed-point format
138modf	extract integer and fractional parts
139nearbyint	round to integer (silent)
140nextafter	next representable value
141nexttoward	next representable value
142remainder	remainder
143remquo	remainder with partial quotient
144rint	round to integer
145round	round to nearest integer
146trunc	integer no greater in magnitude than
147.El
148.Pp
149The
150.Fn ceil ,
151.Fn floor ,
152.Fn llround ,
153.Fn lround ,
154.Fn round ,
155and
156.Fn trunc
157functions round in predetermined directions, whereas
158.Fn llrint ,
159.Fn lrint ,
160and
161.Fn rint
162round according to the current (dynamic) rounding mode.
163For more information on controlling the dynamic rounding mode, see
164.Xr fenv 3
165and
166.Xr fesetround 3 .
167.Ss Silent Order Predicates
168.Cl
169isgreater	greater than relation
170isgreaterequal	greater than or equal to relation
171isless	less than relation
172islessequal	less than or equal to relation
173islessgreater	less than or greater than relation
174isunordered	unordered relation
175.El
176.Ss Transcendental Functions
177.Cl
178acos	inverse cosine
179acosh	inverse hyperbolic cosine
180asin	inverse sine
181asinh	inverse hyperbolic sine
182atan	inverse tangent
183atanh	inverse hyperbolic tangent
184atan2	atan(y/x); complex argument
185cos	cosine
186cosh	hyperbolic cosine
187erf	error function
188erfc	complementary error function
189exp	exponential base e
190exp2	exponential base 2
191expm1	exp(x)\-1
192j0	Bessel function of the first kind of the order 0
193j1	Bessel function of the first kind of the order 1
194jn	Bessel function of the first kind of the order n
195lgamma	log gamma function
196log	natural logarithm
197log10	logarithm to base 10
198log1p	log(1+x)
199log2	base 2 logarithm
200pow	exponential x**y
201sin	trigonometric function
202sinh	hyperbolic function
203tan	trigonometric function
204tanh	hyperbolic function
205tgamma	gamma function
206y0	Bessel function of the second kind of the order 0
207y1	Bessel function of the second kind of the order 1
208yn	Bessel function of the second kind of the order n
209.El
210.Pp
211The routines
212in this section might not produce a result that is correctly rounded,
213so reproducible results cannot be guaranteed across platforms.
214For most of these functions, however, incorrect rounding occurs
215rarely, and then only in very-close-to-halfway cases.
216.Sh SEE ALSO
217.Xr complex 3 ,
218.Xr fenv 3 ,
219.Xr ieee 3 ,
220.Xr qmath 3 ,
221.Xr tgmath 3
222.Sh HISTORY
223A math library with many of the present functions appeared in
224.At v7 .
225The library was substantially rewritten for
226.Bx 4.3
227to provide
228better accuracy and speed on machines supporting either VAX
229or IEEE 754 floating-point.
230Most of this library was replaced with FDLIBM, developed at Sun
231Microsystems, in
232.Fx 1.1.5 .
233Additional routines, including ones for
234.Vt float
235and
236.Vt long double
237values, were written for or imported into subsequent versions of FreeBSD.
238.Sh BUGS
239Many of the routines to compute transcendental functions produce
240inaccurate results in other than the default rounding mode.
241.Pp
242On the i386 platform, trigonometric argument reduction is not
243performed accurately for huge arguments, resulting in
244large errors
245for such arguments to
246.Fn cos ,
247.Fn sin ,
248and
249.Fn tan .
250