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1.\" Copyright 1993 David Metcalfe (david@prism.demon.co.uk)
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24.\" Linux libc source code
25.\" Lewine's _POSIX Programmer's Guide_ (O'Reilly & Associates, 1991)
26.\" 386BSD man pages
27.\" Modified Sat Jul 24 19:42:04 1993 by Rik Faith (faith@cs.unc.edu)
28.\" Added fabsl, fabsf, aeb, 2001-06-07
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30.TH FABS 3 2001-06-07 "" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
31.SH NAME
32fabs, fabsf, fabsl \- absolute value of floating-point number
33.SH SYNOPSIS
34.nf
35.B #include <math.h>
36.sp
37.BI "double fabs(double " x );
38.br
39.BI "float fabsf(float " x );
40.br
41.BI "long double fabsl(long double " x );
42.fi
43.sp
e9329f6d 44Link with \fI-lm\fP.
fea681da 45.SH DESCRIPTION
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46The
47.BR fabs ()
48functions return the absolute value of the floating-point
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49number \fIx\fP.
50.SH ERRORS
51No errors can occur.
52.SH "CONFORMING TO"
53The
63aa9df0 54.BR fabs ()
68e1685c 55function conforms to SVr4, POSIX.1-2001, 4.3BSD, C89.
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56The other functions are from C99.
57.SH "SEE ALSO"
58.BR abs (3),
59.BR ceil (3),
36268806 60.BR cabs (3),
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61.BR floor (3),
62.BR labs (3),
63.BR rint (3)