NAME | SYNOPSIS | DESCRIPTION | RETURN VALUE | ERRORS | VERSIONS | CONFORMING TO | SEE ALSO | COLOPHON

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LOG2(3)                       Linux Programmer's Manual                       LOG2(3)

NAME         top

       log2, log2f, log2l - base-2 logarithmic function

SYNOPSIS         top

       #include <math.h>

       double log2(double x);
       float log2f(float x);
       long double log2l(long double x);

       Link with -lm.

   Feature Test Macro Requirements for glibc (see feature_test_macros(7)):

       log2(), log2f(), log2l():
           _XOPEN_SOURCE >= 600 || _ISOC99_SOURCE || _POSIX_C_SOURCE >= 200112L;
           or cc -std=c99

DESCRIPTION         top

       The log2() function returns the base 2 logarithm of x.

RETURN VALUE         top

       On success, these functions return the base 2 logarithm of x.

       For special cases, including where x is 0, 1, negative, infinity, or NaN, see
       log(3).

ERRORS         top

       See math_error(7) for information on how to determine whether an error has
       occurred when calling these functions.

       For a discussion of the errors that can occur for these functions, see log(3).

VERSIONS         top

       These functions first appeared in glibc in version 2.1.

CONFORMING TO         top

       C99, POSIX.1-2001.  The variant returning double also conforms to SVr4,
       4.3BSD.

SEE ALSO         top

       cbrt(3), clog2(3), log(3), log10(3), sqrt(3)

COLOPHON         top

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                                      2010-09-12                              LOG2(3)

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