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.TH INFINITY 3 2004-10-31 "" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
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.SH NAME
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INFINITY, NAN, HUGE_VAL, HUGE_VALF, HUGE_VALL \- floating point constants
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.SH SYNOPSIS
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.nf
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#define _ISOC99_SOURCE
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.B #include <math.h>
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.B INFINITY
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.B NAN
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.B HUGE_VAL
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.B HUGE_VALF
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.B HUGE_VALL
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.SH DESCRIPTION
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The macro
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.B INFINITY
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expands to a float constant representing positive infinity.
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The macro
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.B NAN
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expands to a float constant representing a quiet NaN
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(when supported).
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A
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.I quiet
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NaN is a NaN ("not-a-number") that does not raise exceptions
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when it is used in arithmetic.
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The opposite is a
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.I signalling
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NaN.
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See IEC 60559:1989.
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The macros
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.BR HUGE_VAL ,
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.BR HUGE_VALF ,
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.BR HUGE_VALL
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expand to constants of types double, float and long double, respectively,
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that represent a large positive value, possibly plus infinity.
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.SH AVAILABILITY
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On a glibc system, the macro HUGE_VAL is always available.
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Availability of the NAN macro can be tested using
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.BR "#ifdef NAN" ,
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and similarly for INFINITY, HUGE_VALF, HUGE_VALL.
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They will be defined by
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.I <math.h>
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if _ISOC99_SOURCE or _GNU_SOURCE is defined, or __STDC_VERSION__ is defined
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and has a value not less than 199901L.
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.SH "CONFORMING TO"
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C99
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.SH "SEE ALSO"
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.BR fpclassify (3),
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.BR feature_test_macros (7)
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