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exp2f(3)

exp2f3

Base-2 exponential function

Part of exp2(3).

Usage

double exp2(double x); float exp2f(float x); long double exp2l(long double x);

_ISOC99_SOURCE { | | _POSIX_C_SOURCE >= 200112L}

Library

Math library (libm, -lm)

Overview

These functions return the value of 2 raised to the power of x.

Return value

On success, these functions return the base-2 exponential value of x.

For various special cases, including the handling of infinity and NaN, as well as overflows and underflows, see exp(3).

Errors

See math_error(7) for information on how to determine whether an error has occurred when calling these functions.

For a discussion of the errors that can occur for these functions, see exp(3).

Attributes

For an explanation of the terms used in this section, see attributes(7).

InterfaceAttributeValue
exp2(), exp2f(), exp2l()Thread safetyMT-Safe

History

  • Arch Linux 2026-11-01: the text shown here
  • Debian 13 (Trixie)
  • Debian 12 (Bookworm)
  • Debian 11 (Bullseye)
  • Debian 10 (Buster)
  • Debian 9 (Stretch)
  • Debian 8 (Jessie)
  • Debian 7 (Wheezy)
  • Debian 6.0 (Squeeze)
  • Debian 5.0 (Lenny)
  • Debian 4.0 (Etch)
  • Debian 3.1 (Sarge)

Standards

C11, POSIX.1-2008.

History

glibc 2.1. C99, POSIX.1-2001.

The variant returning double also conforms to SVr4, 4.3BSD.

From man-pages 6.19-1 in Arch Linux 2026-11-01. Parsed by carta from the page's man source.