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

NAME
       cabs, cabsf, cabsl - absolute value of a complex number

SYNOPSIS
       #include <complex.h>

       double cabs(double complex z);
       float cabsf(float complex z);
       long double cabsl(long double complex z);

       Link with -lm.

DESCRIPTION
       The cabs() function returns the absolute value of the complex number z.
       The result is a real number.

VERSIONS
       These functions first appeared in glibc in version 2.1.

CONFORMING TO
       C99.

NOTES
       The function is actually an alias for  hypot(a, b)  (or,  equivalently,
       sqrt(a*a + b*b)).

SEE ALSO
       abs(3), cimag(3), hypot(3), complex(7)

COLOPHON
       This  page  is  part of release 3.69 of the Linux man-pages project.  A
       description of the project, information about reporting bugs,  and  the
       latest     version     of     this    page,    can    be    found    at
       http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/.

                                  2008-08-11                           CABS(3)

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