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- Move the functions presently described in in ieee(3) to their own manpages. They are not very related, so separating them makes it easier to add meaningful cross-references and extend some of the descriptions. - Move the part of math(3) that discusses IEEE 754 to the ieee(3) manpage.
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Renumber copyright clause 4 Renumber cluase 4 to 3, per what everybody else did when BSD granted them permission to remove clause 3. My insistance on keeping the same numbering for legal reasons is too pedantic, so give up on that point. Submitted by: Jan Schaumann <jschauma@stevens.edu> Pull Request: https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd/pull/96
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- Move the functions presently described in in ieee(3) to their own manpages. They are not very related, so separating them makes it easier to add meaningful cross-references and extend some of the descriptions. - Move the part of math(3) that discusses IEEE 754 to the ieee(3) manpage.
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Document scalbnl and scalblnl.
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.Dd March 4, 2005
- Move the functions presently described in in ieee(3) to their own manpages. They are not very related, so separating them makes it easier to add meaningful cross-references and extend some of the descriptions. - Move the part of math(3) that discusses IEEE 754 to the ieee(3) manpage.
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.Dt SCALBN 3
.Os
.Sh NAME
.Nm scalbln ,
.Nm scalblnf ,
Document scalbnl and scalblnl.
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.Nm scalblnl ,
- Move the functions presently described in in ieee(3) to their own manpages. They are not very related, so separating them makes it easier to add meaningful cross-references and extend some of the descriptions. - Move the part of math(3) that discusses IEEE 754 to the ieee(3) manpage.
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.Nm scalbn ,
Document scalbnl and scalblnl.
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.Nm scalbnf ,
.Nm scalbnl
- Move the functions presently described in in ieee(3) to their own manpages. They are not very related, so separating them makes it easier to add meaningful cross-references and extend some of the descriptions. - Move the part of math(3) that discusses IEEE 754 to the ieee(3) manpage.
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.Nd adjust exponent
.Sh LIBRARY
.Lb libm
.Sh SYNOPSIS
.In math.h
.Ft double
.Fn scalbln "double x" "long n"
.Ft float
.Fn scalblnf "float x" "long n"
Document scalbnl and scalblnl.
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.Ft long double
.Fn scalblnl "long double x" "long n"
- Move the functions presently described in in ieee(3) to their own manpages. They are not very related, so separating them makes it easier to add meaningful cross-references and extend some of the descriptions. - Move the part of math(3) that discusses IEEE 754 to the ieee(3) manpage.
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.Ft double
.Fn scalbn "double x" "int n"
.Ft float
.Fn scalbnf "float x" "int n"
Document scalbnl and scalblnl.
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.Ft long double
.Fn scalbnl "long double x" "int n"
- Move the functions presently described in in ieee(3) to their own manpages. They are not very related, so separating them makes it easier to add meaningful cross-references and extend some of the descriptions. - Move the part of math(3) that discusses IEEE 754 to the ieee(3) manpage.
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.Sh DESCRIPTION
Document scalbnl and scalblnl.
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These routines return
- Move the functions presently described in in ieee(3) to their own manpages. They are not very related, so separating them makes it easier to add meaningful cross-references and extend some of the descriptions. - Move the part of math(3) that discusses IEEE 754 to the ieee(3) manpage.
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.Fa x Ns \(**(2** Ns Fa n )
computed by exponent manipulation.
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr ieee 3 ,
.Xr math 3
.Sh STANDARDS
These routines conform to
.St -isoC-99 ,
and they implement the Scalb function recommended by
.St -ieee754 .
.Sh HISTORY
The
.Fn scalbn
and
.Fn scalbnf
functions appeared in
.Bx 4.3
and
.Fx 2.0 ,
respectively.
The
.Fn scalbln
and
.Fn scalblnf
functions first appeared in
Document scalbnl and scalblnl.
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.Fx 5.3 ,
and
.Fn scalblnl
and
.Fn scalbln
in
s/5.5/6.0/ in HISTORY section. Discussed with: ru
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.Fx 6.0 .
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