Name

copysign, fmax, fmin, fdim, remainder, nextafter, ldexp, scalbn, fma — IEEE 754 floating-point manipulation functions

Synopsis

copysign( in x double precision,
  in y double precision);
 
fmax( in x double precision,
  in y double precision);
 
fmin( in x double precision,
  in y double precision);
 
fdim( in x double precision,
  in y double precision);
 
remainder( in x double precision,
  in y double precision);
 
nextafter( in x double precision,
  in y double precision);
 
ldexp( in x double precision,
  in exp integer);
 
scalbn( in x double precision,
  in exp integer);
 
fma( in x double precision,
  in y double precision,
  in z double precision);
 

Description

These functions implement the IEEE 754 floating-point manipulation operations defined by the C99 standard math library. They all work with double precision floating point numbers and return a result of that type.

:  copysign	returns a value with the magnitude of x and the sign of y.
:  fmax	returns the larger of x and y; if one argument is NaN, the other is returned.
:  fmin	returns the smaller of x and y; if one argument is NaN, the other is returned.
:  fdim	returns the positive difference max(x - y, 0).
:  remainder	IEEE 754 remainder of x / y, rounded to nearest (sign may differ from fmod).
:  nextafter	returns the next representable double after x in the direction of y.
:  ldexp	returns x * 2^exp, computed efficiently without an explicit multiplication.
:  scalbn	equivalent to ldexp on systems where FLT_RADIX is 2 (efficient 2^exp scaling).
:  fma	fused multiply-add: returns (x * y) + z with a single rounding.
    

See also fmod for the truncated-division remainder.


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