1.\" $OpenBSD: nextafter.3,v 1.2 2009/07/29 19:07:56 martynas Exp $ 2.\" Copyright (c) 1985, 1991 Regents of the University of California. 3.\" All rights reserved. 4.\" 5.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without 6.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions 7.\" are met: 8.\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright 9.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. 10.\" 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright 11.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the 12.\" documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. 13.\" 3. Neither the name of the University nor the names of its contributors 14.\" may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software 15.\" without specific prior written permission. 16.\" 17.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE REGENTS AND CONTRIBUTORS ``AS IS'' AND 18.\" ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE 19.\" IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE 20.\" ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE REGENTS OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE 21.\" FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL 22.\" DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS 23.\" OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) 24.\" HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT 25.\" LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY 26.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF 27.\" SUCH DAMAGE. 28.\" 29.\" from: @(#)ieee.3 6.4 (Berkeley) 5/6/91 30.\" 31.Dd $Mdocdate: July 29 2009 $ 32.Dt NEXTAFTER 3 33.Os 34.Sh NAME 35.Nm nextafter , 36.Nm nextafterf 37.Nd next representable value 38.Sh SYNOPSIS 39.Fd #include <math.h> 40.Ft double 41.Fn nextafter "double x" "double y" 42.Ft float 43.Fn nextafterf "float x" "float y" 44.Sh DESCRIPTION 45.Fn nextafter 46returns the next machine representable number from 47.Fa x 48in direction 49.Fa y . 50The 51.Fn nextafterf 52function is a single precision version of 53.Fn nextafter . 54.Sh SEE ALSO 55.Xr math 3 56.Sh STANDARDS 57.St -ieee754 58.Sh HISTORY 59The 60.Nm nextafter 61and 62.Nm nextafterf 63functions appeared in 64.Bx 4.3 65and 66.Nx 1.1 , 67respectively. 68