NAME

       cpow, cpowf, cpowl - complex power function

SYNOPSIS

       #include <complex.h>

       double complex cpow(double complex x, complex double z);
       float complex cpowf(float complex x, complex float z);
       long double complex cpowl(long double complex x,
                                 complex long double z);

       Link with -lm.

DESCRIPTION

       These  functions  calculate  x  raised  to  the power z (with a branch cut for x along the
       negative real axis.)

VERSIONS

       These functions first appeared in glibc in version 2.1.

ATTRIBUTES

       For an explanation of the terms used in this section, see attributes(7).

       ┌─────────────────────────┬───────────────┬─────────┐
       │Interface                │ Attribute     │ Value   │
       ├─────────────────────────┼───────────────┼─────────┤
       │cpow(), cpowf(), cpowl() │ Thread safety │ MT-Safe │
       └─────────────────────────┴───────────────┴─────────┘

CONFORMING TO

       C99, POSIX.1-2001, POSIX.1-2008.

SEE ALSO

       cabs(3), pow(3), complex(7)

COLOPHON

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                                            2015-04-19                                    CPOW(3)