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32 .Dd September 13, 2011
38 .\" The sorting error is intentional. exp and expf should be adjacent.
44 .Nd exponential functions
58 .\" .Fn exp2l "long double x"
68 functions compute the base
70 exponential value of the given argument
80 functions compute the base 2 exponential of the given argument
87 functions compute the value exp(x)\-1 accurately even for tiny argument
90 These functions will return the appropriate computation unless an error
91 occurs or an argument is out of range.
96 detect if the computed value will overflow,
97 set the global variable
101 and cause a reserved operand fault on a
122 functions appeared in