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@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $OpenBSD: hypot.3,v 1.20 2013/07/17 05:42:11 schwarze Exp $
+.\" $OpenBSD: hypot.3,v 1.21 2015/01/15 19:06:31 schwarze Exp $
.\" Copyright (c) 1985, 1991 Regents of the University of California.
.\" All rights reserved.
.\"
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@
.\"
.\" from: @(#)hypot.3 6.7 (Berkeley) 5/6/91
.\"
-.Dd $Mdocdate: July 17 2013 $
+.Dd $Mdocdate: January 15 2015 $
.Dt HYPOT 3
.Os
.Sh NAME
@@ -97,12 +97,10 @@ and
are \*(Na for all
.Em finite
.Ar v ;
-with "reserved operand" in place of "\*(Na", the
-same is true on a
-.Tn VAX .
-But programmers on machines other than a
-.Tn VAX
-(it has no \*(If)
+with
+.Dq reserved operand
+in place of "\*(Na", the same is true on a VAX.
+But programmers on machines other than a VAX (it has no \*(If)
might be surprised at first to discover that
.Fn hypot "\(+-\*(If" "\*(Na"
= +\*(If.
@@ -117,12 +115,9 @@ Hence
.Fn hypot "\*(If" "v"
is independent of
.Ar v .
-Unlike the reserved operand fault on a
-.Tn VAX ,
-the
-.Tn IEEE
-\*(Na is designed to
-disappear when it turns out to be irrelevant, as it does in
+Unlike the reserved operand fault on a VAX,
+the IEEE \*(Na is designed to disappear
+when it turns out to be irrelevant, as it does in
.Fn hypot "\*(If" "\*(Na" .
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr sqrt 3