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SQRT(3)                    Linux Programmer's Manual                   SQRT(3)

NAME
       sqrt, sqrtf, sqrtl - square root function
SYNOPSIS
       #include <math.h>
       double sqrt(double x);
       float sqrtf(float x);
       long double sqrtl(long double x);
       Link with -lm.
   Feature Test Macro Requirements for glibc (see feature_test_macros(7)):
       sqrtf(), sqrtl():
           _BSD_SOURCE || _SVID_SOURCE || _XOPEN_SOURCE >= 600 ||
           _ISOC99_SOURCE || _POSIX_C_SOURCE >= 200112L;
           or cc -std=c99
DESCRIPTION
       The sqrt() function returns the nonnegative square root of x.
RETURN VALUE
       On success, these functions return the square root of x.
       If x is a NaN, a NaN is returned.
       If x is +0 (-0), +0 (-0) is returned.
       If x is positive infinity, positive infinity is returned.
       If x is less than -0, a domain error occurs, and a NaN is returned.
ERRORS
       See math_error(7) for information on how to determine whether an  error
       has occurred when calling these functions.
       The following errors can occur:
       Domain error: x less than -0
              errno  is  set  to  EDOM.   An  invalid floating-point exception
              (FE_INVALID) is raised.
CONFORMING TO
       C99, POSIX.1-2001.  The variant returning double also conforms to SVr4,
       4.3BSD, C89.
SEE ALSO
       cbrt(3), csqrt(3), hypot(3)
COLOPHON
       This  page  is  part of release 3.53 of the Linux man-pages project.  A
       description of the project, and information about reporting  bugs,  can
       be found at http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/.

                                  2010-09-20                           SQRT(3)