.\" Copyright (c) 1985 Regents of the University of California. .\" All rights reserved. The Berkeley software License Agreement .\" specifies the terms and conditions for redistribution. .\" .\" @(#)sqrt.3 6.2 (Berkeley) 05/12/86 .\" .TH SQRT 3M "" .UC 6 .ds up \fIulp\fR .SH NAME cbrt, sqrt \- cube root, square root .SH SYNOPSIS .nf .B #include .PP .B double cbrt(x) .B double x; .PP .B double sqrt(x) .B double x; .fi .SH DESCRIPTION Cbrt(x) returns the cube root of x. .PP Sqrt(x) returns the square root of x. .SH DIAGNOSTICS On a VAX, sqrt(negative) returns the reserved operand and sets \fIerrno\fR to EDOM . .SH ERROR (due to Roundoff etc.) Cbrt is accurate to within 0.7 \*(ups. .br Sqrt on a VAX is accurate to within 0.501 \*(ups. .br Sqrt on a machine that conforms to IEEE 754 is correctly rounded in accordance with the rounding mode in force; the error is less than half an \*(up in the default mode (round\-to\-nearest). An \*(up is one \fIU\fRnit in the \fIL\fRast \fIP\fRlace carried. .SH SEE ALSO math(3M), infnan(3M) .SH AUTHOR W. Kahan