exp, expf, expl - base-e exponential function
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Attributes
For an explanation of the terms used in this section, see attributes(7).
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│ Interface │ Attribute │ Value │
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│ exp(), expf(), expl() │ Thread safety │ MT-Safe │
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Description
These functions return the value of e (the base of natural logarithms) raised to the power of x.
Errors
See math_error(7) for information on how to determine whether an error has occurred when calling these
functions.
The following errors can occur:
Range error, overflow
errno is set to ERANGE. An overflow floating-point exception (FE_OVERFLOW) is raised.
Range error, underflow
errno is set to ERANGE. An underflow floating-point exception (FE_UNDERFLOW) is raised.
History
C99, POSIX.1-2001.
The variant returning double also conforms to SVr4, 4.3BSD, C89.
Library
Math library (libm, -lm)
Name
exp, expf, expl - base-e exponential function
Return Value
On success, these functions return the exponential value of x.
If x is a NaN, a NaN is returned.
If x is positive infinity, positive infinity is returned.
If x is negative infinity, +0 is returned.
If the result underflows, a range error occurs, and zero is returned.
If the result overflows, a range error occurs, and the functions return +HUGE_VAL, +HUGE_VALF, or
+HUGE_VALL, respectively.
See Also
cbrt(3), cexp(3), exp10(3), exp2(3), expm1(3), sqrt(3) Linux man-pages 6.9.1 2024-05-02 exp(3)
Standards
C11, POSIX.1-2008.
Synopsis
#include<math.h>doubleexp(doublex);floatexpf(floatx);longdoubleexpl(longdoublex); Feature Test Macro Requirements for glibc (see feature_test_macros(7)): expf(), expl(): _ISOC99_SOURCE || _POSIX_C_SOURCE >= 200112L || /* Since glibc 2.19: */ _DEFAULT_SOURCE || /* glibc <= 2.19: */ _BSD_SOURCE || _SVID_SOURCE
