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NAME
       pow, powf, powl - power functions

SYNOPSIS
       #include 

       double pow(double x, double y);
       float powf(float x, float y);
       long double powl(long double x, long double y);

       Link with -lm.

DESCRIPTION
       The pow() function returns the value of x raised to the power of y.

ERRORS
       EDOM   The argument x is negative and y is not an integral value.  This
	      would result in a complex number.

CONFORMING TO
       SVr4, 4.3BSD, C89.  The float and long double variants are C99 require
       ments.

SEE ALSO
       cbrt(3), cpow(3), sqrt(3)

COLOPHON
       This  page  is  part of release 3.05 of the Linux man-pages project.  A
       description of the project, and information about reporting  bugs,  can
       be found at http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/.



				  2008-07-12				POW(3)