LOG10

Section: Linux Programmer's Manual (3)
Updated: 2008-08-05
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NAME

log10, log10f, log10l - base-10 logarithmic function  

SYNOPSIS

#include <math.h>

double log10(double x);

float log10f(float x);
long double log10l(long double x);

Link with -lm.

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

log10f(), log10l(): _BSD_SOURCE || _SVID_SOURCE || _XOPEN_SOURCE >= 600 || _ISOC99_SOURCE; or cc -std=c99  

DESCRIPTION

The log10() function returns the base 10 logarithm of x.  

RETURN VALUE

On success, these functions return the base 10 logarithm of x.

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

ERRORS

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).  

CONFORMING TO

C99, POSIX.1-2001. The variant returning double also conforms to SVr4, 4.3BSD, C89.  

SEE ALSO

cbrt(3), clog10(3), exp10(3), sqrt(3)  

COLOPHON

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