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LGAMMA(3)                 OpenBSD Programmer's Manual                LGAMMA(3)

NAME
     lgamma, lgammaf - log gamma functions



SYNOPSIS
     #include <math.h>

     extern int signgam;

     double
     lgamma(double x);

     float
     lgammaf(float x);

DESCRIPTION                _
     lgamma(x) returns ln|| (x)|.
                                                       _
     The external integer signgam returns the sign of | (x).

IDIOSYNCRASIES
     Do not use the expression ``signgam*exp(lgamma(x))'' to compute g :=
     | (x).  Instead use a program like this (in C):

           lg = lgamma(x); g = signgam*exp(lg);

     Only after lgamma() has returned can signgam be correct.

RETURN VALUES
     lgamma() returns appropriate values unless an argument is out of range.
     Overflow will occur for sufficiently large positive values, and non-posi-
     tive integers.  On the VAX, the reserved operator is returned, and errno
     is set to ERANGE.

SEE ALSO
     infnan(3),  math(3)

HISTORY
     The lgamma() function appeared in 4.3BSD.

OpenBSD 2.6                    December 3, 1992                              1

Source: OpenBSD 2.6 man pages. Copyright: Portions are copyrighted by BERKELEY
SOFTWARE DESIGN, INC., The Regents of the University of California, Massachusetts
Institute of Technology, Free Software Foundation, FreeBSD Inc., and others.



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