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LOG10

Section: Linux Programmer's Manual (3)
Updated: 2017-09-15
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NAME

log10, log10f, log10l - base-10 logarithmic function  

SYNOPSIS

#include <math.h>

double log10(double x);
float log10f(float x);
long double log10l(long double x);

Link with -lm.

Feature Test Macro Requirements for glibc (see feature_test_macros(7)):

log10f(), log10l():

_ISOC99_SOURCE || _POSIX_C_SOURCE >= 200112L
    || /* Since glibc 2.19: */ _DEFAULT_SOURCE
    || /* Glibc versions <= 2.19: */ _BSD_SOURCE || _SVID_SOURCE

 

DESCRIPTION

These functions return the base 10 logarithm of x.  

RETURN VALUE

On success, these functions return the base 10 logarithm of x.

For special cases, including where x is 0, 1, negative, infinity, or NaN, see log(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 log(3).  

ATTRIBUTES

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

Interface	Attribute	Value
log10(), log10f(), log10l()	Thread safety	MT-Safe

 

CONFORMING TO

C99, POSIX.1-2001, POSIX.1-2008.

The variant returning double also conforms to SVr4, 4.3BSD, C89.  

SEE ALSO

cbrt(3), clog10(3), exp10(3), log(3), log2(3), sqrt(3)  

COLOPHON

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Index

NAME

SYNOPSIS

DESCRIPTION

RETURN VALUE

ERRORS

ATTRIBUTES

CONFORMING TO

SEE ALSO

COLOPHON

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