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

C 6 cbrt, sqrt - cube root, square root

 #include <math.h> 

 double cbrt(x)  double x; 

 double sqrt(x)  double x; 

Cbrt(x) returns the cube root of x.

Sqrt(x) returns the square root of x.

On a VAX, sqrt(negative) returns the reserved operand and sets errno to EDOM . Cbrt is accurate to within 0.7 \*(ups.

Sqrt on a VAX is accurate to within 0.501 \*(ups.

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 Unit in the Last Place carried.

math(3M), infnan(3M) W. Kahan