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| author |   deraadt <deraadt@openbsd.org> | 1997-07-28 08:15:03 +0000 |
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| committer | deraadt <deraadt@openbsd.org> | 1997-07-28 08:15:03 +0000 |
| commit | 1efb78531e380bf98fc09048844064d3e6d9790a (patch) | |
| tree | 33f7f1578fb2a87f41f1dcee8169c605cc29d6ad | |
| parent | support mvme68k; also change all m68k architectures to be -unknown- (diff) | |
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Removed confusing text which implies that gamma() computes the gamma
instead of log gamma function. This was true with 4.4BSD's libm, but
they are equivalent on all other systems (XPG4.2 requires this); jtc.
cato@ulysses.df.lth.se found it.
| -rw-r--r-- | lib/libm/man/lgamma.3 | 20 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 16 deletions
diff --git a/lib/libm/man/lgamma.3 b/lib/libm/man/lgamma.3 index 40f3f776fcb..9fb68ce6bda 100644 --- a/lib/libm/man/lgamma.3 +++ b/lib/libm/man/lgamma.3 @@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ .\" SUCH DAMAGE. .\" .\" from: @(#)lgamma.3 6.6 (Berkeley) 12/3/92 -.\" $Id: lgamma.3,v 1.2 1995/10/28 00:56:57 deraadt Exp $ +.\" $Id: lgamma.3,v 1.3 1997/07/28 08:15:03 deraadt Exp $ .\" .Dd December 3, 1992 .Dt LGAMMA 3 @@ -77,18 +77,9 @@ Only after .Fn lgamma has returned can signgam be correct. .Pp -For arguments in its range, -.Fn gamma -is preferred, as for positive arguments -it is accurate to within one unit in the last place. -Exponentiation of -.Fn lgamma -will lose up to 10 significant bits. .Sh RETURN VALUES -.Fn Gamma -and -.Fn lgamma -return appropriate values unless an argument is out of range. +.Fn Lgamma +returns appropriate values unless an argument is out of range. Overflow will occur for sufficiently large positive values, and non-positive integers. On the @@ -97,10 +88,7 @@ the reserved operator is returned, and .Va errno is set to -.Er ERANGE -For large non-integer negative values, -.Fn gamma -will underflow. +.Er ERANGE . .Sh SEE ALSO .Xr math 3 , .Xr infnan 3 |