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authorMartynas Venckus <martynas@cvs.openbsd.org>2008-07-29 21:57:14 +0000
committerMartynas Venckus <martynas@cvs.openbsd.org>2008-07-29 21:57:14 +0000
commitf81033481c3cce2cced8af2b6972e7e9fdc8e6a2 (patch)
tree39fe0c7925d9931100a2c20b8add1e39414eedc4 /lib/libm/man
parenta3961b22d8c41566431b649a17e4b6b9cf7b1258 (diff)
describe exp2, exp2f and mlink them
Diffstat (limited to 'lib/libm/man')
-rw-r--r--lib/libm/man/exp.323
1 files changed, 20 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/lib/libm/man/exp.3 b/lib/libm/man/exp.3
index 56860504c1e..24490abd700 100644
--- a/lib/libm/man/exp.3
+++ b/lib/libm/man/exp.3
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $OpenBSD: exp.3,v 1.17 2007/05/31 19:19:35 jmc Exp $
+.\" $OpenBSD: exp.3,v 1.18 2008/07/29 21:57:13 martynas Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 1985, 1991 Regents of the University of California.
.\" All rights reserved.
@@ -29,12 +29,14 @@
.\"
.\" from: @(#)exp.3 6.12 (Berkeley) 7/31/91
.\"
-.Dd $Mdocdate: May 31 2007 $
+.Dd $Mdocdate: July 29 2008 $
.Dt EXP 3
.Os
.Sh NAME
.Nm exp ,
.Nm expf ,
+.Nm exp2 ,
+.Nm exp2f ,
.Nm expm1 ,
.Nm expm1f ,
.Nm log ,
@@ -53,6 +55,10 @@
.Ft float
.Fn expf "float x"
.Ft double
+.Fn exp2 "double x"
+.Ft float
+.Fn exp2f "float x"
+.Ft double
.Fn expm1 "double x"
.Ft float
.Fn expm1f "float x"
@@ -75,7 +81,9 @@
.Sh DESCRIPTION
The
.Fn exp
-function computes the exponential value of the given argument
+function computes the base
+.Ms e
+exponential value of the given argument
.Fa x .
The
.Fn expf
@@ -83,6 +91,15 @@ function is a single precision version of
.Fn exp .
.Pp
The
+.Fn exp2
+function computes the base 2 exponential of the given argument
+.Fa x .
+The
+.Fn exp2f
+function is a single precision version of
+.Fn exp2 .
+.Pp
+The
.Fn expm1
function computes the value exp(x)\-1 accurately even for tiny argument
.Fa x .