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



NAME
       cpow, cpowf, cpowl - complex power function

SYNOPSIS
       #include <complex.h>

       double complex cpow(double complex x, complex double z);
       float complex cpowf(float complex x, complex float z);
       long double complex cpowl(long double complex x,
                                 complex long double z);

       Link with -lm.

DESCRIPTION
       The function calculates x raised to the power z.  (With a branch cut for x along the nega‐
       tive real axis.)

VERSIONS
       These functions first appeared in glibc in version 2.1.

CONFORMING TO
       C99.

SEE ALSO
       cabs(3), pow(3), complex(7)

COLOPHON
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       project,  information  about  reporting  bugs, and the latest version of this page, can be
       found at http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/.



                                            2008-08-11                                    CPOW(3)