carg.3: Add introductory sentence explaining what these functions calculate

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
This commit is contained in:
Michael Kerrisk 2015-04-12 12:18:38 +02:00
parent 9a74e0188a
commit 8fd531f3f4
1 changed files with 4 additions and 0 deletions

View File

@ -18,6 +18,10 @@ carg, cargf, cargl \- calculate the complex argument
.sp
Link with \fI\-lm\fP.
.SH DESCRIPTION
These functions calculate the complex argument (also called phase angle) of
.IR z ,
with a branch cut along the negative real axis.
A complex number can be described by two real coordinates.
One may use rectangular coordinates and gets