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47 .TH HYPOT 3M "Sep 1, 2002" "SunOS 5.11" "Mathematical Library Functions"
49 hypot, hypotf, hypotl \- Euclidean distance function
53 c99 [ \fIflag\fR... ] \fIfile\fR... \fB-lm\fR [ \fIlibrary\fR... ]
56 \fBdouble\fR \fBhypot\fR(\fBdouble\fR \fIx\fR, \fBdouble\fR \fIy\fR);
61 \fBfloat\fR \fBhypotf\fR(\fBfloat\fR \fIx\fR, \fBfloat\fR \fIy\fR);
66 \fBlong double\fR \fBhypotl\fR(\fBlong double\fR \fIx\fR, \fBlong double\fR \fIy\fR);
72 These functions compute the length of the square root of \fIx\fR^2 + \fIy\fR^2
73 without undue overflow or underflow.
77 Upon successful completion, these functions return the length of the hypotenuse
78 of a right angled triangle with sides of length \fIx\fR^2 and \fIy\fR^2.
81 If the correct value would cause overflow, a range error occurs and
82 \fBhypot()\fR, \fBhypotf()\fR, and \fBhypotl()\fR return the value of the macro
83 \fBHUGE_VAL\fR, \fBHUGE_VALF\fR, and \fBHUGE_VALL\fR, respectively.
86 If \fIx\fR or \fIy\fR is \(+-Inf, +Inf is returned even if one of \fIx\fR or
90 If \fIx\fR or \fIy\fR is NaN and the other is not \(+-Inf, a NaN is returned.
94 These functions will fail if:
103 The result overflows.
105 If the integer expression (\fBmath_errhandling\fR & \fBMATH_ERREXCEPT\fR) is
106 non-zero, the overflow floating-point exception is raised.
112 \fBhypot\fR(\fIx\fR,\fIy\fR), \fBhypot\fR(\fIy\fR,\fIx\fR), and
113 \fBhypot\fR(\fIx\fR, \(mi\fIy\fR) are equivalent.
116 \fBhypot\fR(\fIx\fR, \(+-0) is equivalent to \fBfabs\fR(\fIx\fR).
119 These functions takes precautions against underflow and overflow during
120 intermediate steps of the computation.
123 An application wanting to check for exceptions should call
124 \fBfeclearexcept\fR(\fBFE_ALL_EXCEPT\fR) before calling these functions. On
125 return, if \fBfetestexcept\fR(\fBFE_INVALID\fR | \fBFE_DIVBYZERO\fR |
126 \fBFE_OVERFLOW\fR | \fBFE_UNDERFLOW\fR) is non-zero, an exception has been
127 raised. An application should either examine the return value or check the
128 floating point exception flags to detect exceptions.
132 See \fBattributes\fR(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:
141 ATTRIBUTE TYPE ATTRIBUTE VALUE
143 Interface Stability Standard
151 \fBfabs\fR(3M), \fBfeclearexcept\fR(3M), \fBfetestexcept\fR(3M),
152 \fBisnan\fR(3M), \fBmath.h\fR(3HEAD), \fBsqrt\fR(3M), \fBattributes\fR(5),