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1.\" Copyright 1993 David Metcalfe (david@prism.demon.co.uk)
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25.\" Lewine's _POSIX Programmer's Guide_ (O'Reilly & Associates, 1991)
26.\" 386BSD man pages
27.\" Modified 1993-07-24 by Rik Faith (faith@cs.unc.edu)
28.\" Modified 2002-07-27 by Walter Harms
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30.TH SQRT 3 2002-07-27 "" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
31.SH NAME
32sqrt, sqrtf, sqrtl \- square root function
33.SH SYNOPSIS
34.nf
35.B #include <math.h>
36.sp
37.BI "double sqrt(double " x );
d39541ec 38.br
fea681da 39.BI "float sqrtf(float " x );
d39541ec 40.br
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41.BI "long double sqrtl(long double " x );
42.fi
43.sp
44Link with \-lm.
45.SH DESCRIPTION
63aa9df0 46The \fBsqrt\fP() function returns the non-negative square root of \fIx\fP.
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47It fails and sets \fIerrno\fP to EDOM, if \fIx\fP is negative.
48.SH ERRORS
49.TP
50.B EDOM
51\fIx\fP is negative.
52.SH "CONFORMING TO"
68e1685c 53SVr4, 4.3BSD, C89.
c13182ef 54The
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55.I float
56and
57.I "long double"
58variants are C99 requirements.
fea681da 59.SH "SEE ALSO"
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60.BR cbrt (3),
61.BR csqrt (3),
fea681da 62.BR hypot (3)