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.\" Copyright 2002 Walter Harms (walter.harms@informatik.uni-oldenburg.de)
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.\" Distributed under GPL
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.\"
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.TH CABS 3 2002-07-28 "" "complex math routines"
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.SH NAME
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cabs, cabsf, cabsl \- absolute value of a complex number
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.SH SYNOPSIS
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.B #include <complex.h>
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.BI "double cabs(double complex " z );
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.br
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.BI "float cabsf(float complex " z );
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.br
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.BI "long double cabsl(long double complex " z );
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.sp
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Link with \-lm.
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.SH DESCRIPTION
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The
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.BR cabs ()
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function returns the absolute value of the complex number z. The
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result is a real number.
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.SH NOTE
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The function is actually an alias for hypot(a,b) = sqrt(a*a+b*b).
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.SH "CONFORMING TO"
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C99
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.SH "SEE ALSO"
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.BR abs (3),
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.BR cimag (3),
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.BR hypot (3),
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.BR complex (5)
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