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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

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