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.\" Copyright 1993 David Metcalfe (david@prism.demon.co.uk)
.\"
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.\" References consulted:
.\" Linux libc source code
.\" Lewine's _POSIX Programmer's Guide_ (O'Reilly & Associates, 1991)
.\" 386BSD man pages
.\" Modified 1993-07-24 by Rik Faith (faith@cs.unc.edu)
.\" Modified 2002-07-27 by Walter Harms
.\" (walter.harms@informatik.uni-oldenburg.de)
.\"
.TH ERF 3 2002-07-27 "BSD" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
.SH NAME
erf, erff, erfl, erfc, erfcf, erfcl \- error function and
complementary error function
.SH SYNOPSIS
.nf
.B #include <math.h>
.sp
.BI "double erf(double " x );
.br
.BI "float erff(float " x );
.br
.BI "long double erfl(long double " x );
.sp
.BI "double erfc(double " x );
.br
.BI "float erfcf(float " x );
.br
.BI "long double erfcl(long double " x );
.sp
.fi
Link with \-lm.
.SH DESCRIPTION
The \fBerf\fP() function returns the error function of \fIx\fP; defined
as
.TP
erf(x) = 2/sqrt(pi)* integral from 0 to x of exp(\-t*t) dt
.PP
The \fBerfc\fP() function returns the complementary error function of
\fIx\fP, that is 1.0 \- erf(x).
.SH "CONFORMING TO"
SVr4, 4.3BSD, C99.
The
.I float
and
.I "long double"
variants are requirements of C99.
.SH "SEE ALSO"
.BR cerf (3),
.BR exp (3)
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