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.\" changed `square root' into `cube root' - aeb, 950919
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.\" Modified 2002-07-27 Walter Harms
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.\" (walter.harms@informatik.uni-oldenburg.de)
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.TH CBRT 3 2002-27-07 "GNU" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
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.SH NAME
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cbrt, cbrtf, cbrtl \- cube root function
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.SH SYNOPSIS
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.nf
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.B #include <math.h>
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.BI "double cbrt(double " x );
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.br
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.BI "float cbrtf(float " x );
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.br
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.BI "long double cbrtl(long double " x );
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.fi
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Link with \-lm.
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.SH DESCRIPTION
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The \fBcbrt\fP() function returns the (real) cube root of \fIx\fP.
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This function cannot fail; every representable real value has a
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representable real cube root.
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.SH "CONFORMING TO"
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C99
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.\" .BR cbrt ()
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.\" was a GNU extension. It is now a C99 requirement.
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.SH "SEE ALSO"
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.BR pow (3),
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.BR sqrt (3)
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