scalb(), scalbf(), scalbn(), scalbnf() -- multiply by a power of the machine's radix

SYNOPSIS

#include <math.h>

double scalb (double x, double n)

float scalbf (float x, float n)

double scalbn(double x, int n)

float scalbnf(float x, int n)

float scalblnf(float x, long n);

double scalbln(double x, long n);

long double scalblnl(long double x, long n);

long double scalbnl(long double x, int n);

DESCRIPTION

The scalb() function computes x * r^n, where r is the radix of the machine's floating point arithmetic. When r is 2, scalb() is equivalent to ldexp().

The scalbn() function differs from scalb() only in the type of its second argument.

An application wishing to check for error situations should set errno to 0 before calling scalb(). If errno is non-zero on return, or the return value is NaN, an error has occurred.

The scalbf() and scalbnf() functions are the single-precision of scalb() and scalbn() respectively.

PARAMETERS

x: Is the value of the scale.
n: Is the value of the exponent.

RETURN VALUES

On success, the scalb() function returns x * r^n.

If the correct value would overflow, then +HUGE_VAL or -HUGE_VAL (according to the sign of x) is returned, and:

In POSIX mode, errno is set to ERANGE.

In XOPEN or SVID mode, the matherr() function is called.

If the correct value would underflow, scalb() returns 0 and:

In POSIX mode, errno is set to ERANGE.

In XOPEN or SVID mode, the matherr() function is called.

The scalb() function returns x when x is +Infinity or -Infinity.

If x or n is NaN, then scalb() returns NaN.

scalb(), scalbf(), scalbn(), scalbnf()
multiply by a power of the machine's radix

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scalb(), scalbf(), scalbn(), scalbnf() multiply by a power of the machine's radix

Function

scalb(), scalbf(), scalbn(), scalbnf()
multiply by a power of the machine's radix