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Name

cabs, cabsf, cabsl - absolute value of a complex number

Synopsis

#include <complex.h>

double cabs(double complex z);
float cabsf(float complex z);
long double cabsl(long double complex z);

Link with -lm.

Description

The cabs() function returns the absolute value of the complex number z. The result is a real number.

Versions

These functions first appeared in glibc in version 2.1.

Conforming to

C99.

Notes

The function is actually an alias for hypot(a, b) (or, equivalently, sqrt(a*a + b*b)).

See Also

abs(3) , cimag(3) , hypot(3) , complex(7)

Colophon

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