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Manual Reference Pages  - POW (3)

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pow, powf, powl - power functions

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Errors

#include <math.h> 



double pow(double x, double y); 



float powf(float x, float y); 



long double powl(long double x, long double y); 

The pow() function returns the value of x raised to the power of y.

The pow() function can return the following error:

EDOM	The argument x is negative and y is not an integral value. This would result in a complex number.

SVID 3, POSIX, BSD 4.3, ISO 9899. The float and the long double variants are C99 requirements.

sqrt(3), cbrt(3)

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