LGAMMA(3)						   BSD Library Functions Manual 						 LGAMMA(3)

NAME

     lgamma, lgammaf, lgamma_r, lgammaf_r, gamma, gammaf, gamma_r, gammaf_r, tgamma, tgammaf -- log gamma function

LIBRARY

     Math Library (libm, -lm)

SYNOPSIS

     #include <math.h>

     extern int signgam;

     double
     lgamma(double x);

     float
     lgammaf(float x);

     double
     lgamma_r(double x, int *sign);

     float
     lgammaf_r(float x, int *sign);

     double
     gamma(double x);

     float
     gammaf(float x);

     double
     gamma_r(double x, int *sign);

     float
     gammaf_r(float x, int *sign);

     double
     tgamma(double x);

     float
     tgammaf(float x);

DESCRIPTION
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     lgamma(x) returns ln|| (x)|.
						       _
     The external integer signgam returns the sign of | (x).
													       _
     lgamma_r() is a reentrant interface that performs identically to lgamma(), differing in that the sign of | (x) is stored in the location
     pointed to by the sign argument and signgam is not modified.
						    _
     The tgamma(x) and tgammaf(x) functions return | (x), with no effect on signgam.

     gamma(), gammaf(), gamma_r(), and gammaf_r() are deprecated aliases for lgamma(), lgammaf(), lgamma_r(), and lgammaf_r(), respectively.

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-
     positive integers.  For large non-integer negative values, tgamma() will underflow.  On the VAX, the reserved operator is returned, and errno
     is set to ERANGE.

SEE ALSO

     math(3)

HISTORY

     The lgamma function appeared in 4.3BSD.  The tgamma() function appeared in NetBSD 6.0.

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								    May 4, 2012 							       BSD