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This manual page is part of the POSIX Programmer's Manual. The Linux implementation of this interface

Application Usage

       On error, the expressions (math_errhandling & MATH_ERRNO) and  (math_errhandling  &  MATH_ERREXCEPT)  are
       independent of each other, but at least one of them must be non-zero.

Description

       The  functionality  described  on  this  reference  page is aligned with the ISO C standard. Any conflict
       between the requirements described  here  and  the  ISO C  standard  is  unintentional.  This  volume  of
       POSIX.1‐2017 defers to the ISO C standard.

       These functions shall compute the base-e exponential of x.

       An   application   wishing   to   check   for  error  situations  should  set  errno  to  zero  and  call
       feclearexcept(FE_ALL_EXCEPT) before  calling  these  functions.  On  return,  if  errno  is  non-zero  or
       fetestexcept(FE_INVALID | FE_DIVBYZERO | FE_OVERFLOW | FE_UNDERFLOW) is non-zero, an error has occurred.

Errors

       These functions shall fail if:

       Range Error The result overflows.

                   If  the  integer  expression (math_errhandling & MATH_ERRNO) is non-zero, then errno shall be
                   set to [ERANGE].  If the integer expression (math_errhandling & MATH_ERREXCEPT) is  non-zero,
                   then the overflow floating-point exception shall be raised.

       These functions may fail if:

       Range Error The result underflows.

                   If  the  integer  expression (math_errhandling & MATH_ERRNO) is non-zero, then errno shall be
                   set to [ERANGE].  If the integer expression (math_errhandling & MATH_ERREXCEPT) is  non-zero,
                   then the underflow floating-point exception shall be raised.

       Thefollowingsectionsareinformative.

Examples

ComputingtheDensityoftheStandardNormalDistribution
       This  function  shows  an implementation for the density of the standard normal distribution using exp().
       This example uses the constant M_PI which is part of the XSI option.

           #include <math.h>

           double
           normal_density (double x)
           {
               return exp(-x*x/2) / sqrt (2*M_PI);
           }

Future Directions

       None.

Name

       exp, expf, expl — exponential function

Prolog

       This  manual  page  is part of the POSIX Programmer's Manual.  The Linux implementation of this interface
       may differ (consult the corresponding Linux manual page for details of Linux behavior), or the  interface
       may not be implemented on Linux.

Rationale

       None.

Return Value

       Upon successful completion, these functions shall return the exponential value of x.

       If  the correct value would cause overflow, a range error shall occur and exp(), expf(), and expl() shall
       return the value of the macro HUGE_VAL, HUGE_VALF, and HUGE_VALL, respectively.

       If the correct value would cause underflow, and is not representable, a range error may occur, and exp(),
       expf(), and expl() shall return 0.0, or (if the IEC 60559 Floating-Point  option  is  not  supported)  an
       implementation-defined value no greater in magnitude than DBL_MIN, FLT_MIN, and LDBL_MIN, respectively.

       If x is NaN, a NaN shall be returned.

       If x is ±0, 1 shall be returned.

       If x is -Inf, +0 shall be returned.

       If x is +Inf, x shall be returned.

       If the correct value would cause underflow, and is representable, a range error may occur and the correct
       value shall be returned.

See Also

feclearexcept(), fetestexcept(), isnan(), log()

       The Base Definitions volume of POSIX.1‐2017, Section4.20, TreatmentofErrorConditionsforMathematicalFunctions, <math.h>

Synopsis

       #include <math.h>

       double exp(double x);
       float expf(float x);
       long double expl(long double x);

See Also