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31.Dd February 15, 2020
32.Dt SQRT 3
33.Os
34.Sh NAME
35.Nm cbrt ,
36.Nm cbrtf ,
37.Nm cbrtl ,
38.Nm sqrt ,
39.Nm sqrtf ,
40.Nm sqrtl
41.Nd cube root and square root functions
42.Sh LIBRARY
43.Lb libm
44.Sh SYNOPSIS
45.In math.h
46.Ft double
47.Fn cbrt "double x"
48.Ft float
49.Fn cbrtf "float x"
50.Ft long double
51.Fn cbrtl "long double x"
52.Ft double
53.Fn sqrt "double x"
54.Ft float
55.Fn sqrtf "float x"
56.Ft long double
57.Fn sqrtl "long double x"
58.Sh DESCRIPTION
59The
60.Fn cbrt ,
61.Fn cbrtf ,
62and
63.Fn cbrtl
64functions compute
65the cube root of
66.Fa x .
67.Pp
68The
69.Fn sqrt ,
70.Fn sqrtf ,
71and
72.Fn sqrtl
73functions compute the
74non-negative square root of
75.Fa x .
76.Sh RETURN VALUES
77The
78.Fn cbrt ,
79.Fn cbrtf ,
80and
81.Fn cbrtl
82functions return the requested cube root.
83The
84.Fn sqrt ,
85.Fn sqrtf ,
86and
87.Fn sqrtl
88functions return the requested square root
89unless an error occurs.
90An attempt to take the
91.Fn sqrt
92of negative
93.Fa x
94raises an invalid exception and causes an \*(Na to be returned
95(except that the square root of -0 is valid and equal to -0.)
96.Sh SEE ALSO
97.Xr fenv 3 ,
98.Xr math 3
99.Sh STANDARDS
100The
101.Fn cbrt ,
102.Fn cbrtf ,
103.Fn cbrtl ,
104.Fn sqrt ,
105.Fn sqrtf ,
106and
107.Fn sqrtl
108functions conform to
109.St -isoC-99 .
110.Sh HISTORY
111The
112.Fn cbrt
113function appeared in
114.Bx 4.3 .
115The
116.Fn sqrt
117function appeared in
118.At v2 .
119.Fn sqrtl
120function appeared in
121.Fx 8.0 .
122The
123.Fn cbrtl
124function appeared in
125.Fx 9.0 .
126