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cbrt, cbrtf, cbrtl, sqrt, sqrtf, sqrtl – cube root and square root functions

LIBRARY SYNOPSIS DESCRIPTION RETURN VALUES SEE ALSO STANDARDS HISTORY

Math Library (libm, -lm)

#include <math.h>

double
cbrt(double x);

float
cbrtf(float x);

long double
cbrtl(long double x);

double
sqrt(double x);

float
sqrtf(float x);

long double
sqrtl(long double x);

The cbrt(), cbrtf(), and cbrtl() functions compute the cube root of x.

The sqrt(), sqrtf(), and sqrtl() functions compute the non-negative square root of x.

The cbrt(), cbrtf(), and cbrtl() functions return the requested cube root. The sqrt(), sqrtf(), and sqrtl() functions return the requested square root unless an error occurs. An attempt to take the sqrt() of negative x raises an invalid exception and causes an NaN to be returned (except that the square root of -0 is valid and equal to -0.)

The cbrt(), cbrtf(), cbrtl(), sqrt(), sqrtf(), and sqrtl() functions conform to ISO/IEC 9899:1999 ("ISO C99").

The cbrt() function appeared in BSD 4.3 . The sqrt() function appeared in AT&T v2 . sqrtl() function appeared in FreeBSD 8.0 . The cbrtl() function appeared in FreeBSD 9.0 .