01-22-2004
He did say VAX, not VMS.
VAX is the name of a hardware architecture, like sparc or pa-risc. BSD unix was born on a VAX. I worked on Vaxen using both BSD and Ultrix.
Many design decisions in the BSD kernel were made based on the VAX architecture.
But I still would not call VAX a "little brother" of Unix.
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HYPOT(3) BSD Library Functions Manual HYPOT(3)
NAME
hypot, hypotf -- Euclidean distance and complex absolute value functions
LIBRARY
Math Library (libm, -lm)
SYNOPSIS
#include <math.h>
double
hypot(double x, double y);
float
hypotf(float x, float y);
DESCRIPTION
The hypot() functions compute the sqrt(x*x+y*y) in such a way that underflow will not happen, and overflow occurs only if the final result
deserves it.
hypot(infinity, v) = hypot(v, infinity) = +infinity for all v, including NaN.
ERRORS
Below 0.97 ulps. Consequently hypot(5.0, 12.0) = 13.0 exactly; in general, hypot returns an integer whenever an integer might be expected.
The same cannot be said for the shorter and faster version of hypot that is provided in the comments in cabs.c; its error can exceed 1.2
ulps.
NOTES
As might be expected, hypot(v, NaN) and hypot(NaN, v) are NaN for all finite v; with "reserved operand" in place of "NaN", the same is true
on a VAX. But programmers on machines other than a VAX (it has no infinity) might be surprised at first to discover that hypot(+-infinity,
NaN) = +infinity. This is intentional; it happens because hypot(infinity, v) = +infinity for all v, finite or infinite. Hence
hypot(infinity, v) is independent of v. Unlike the reserved operand fault on a VAX, the IEEE NaN is designed to disappear when it turns out
to be irrelevant, as it does in hypot(infinity, NaN).
SEE ALSO
math(3), sqrt(3)
HISTORY
Both a hypot() function and a cabs() function appeared in Version 7 AT&T UNIX. cabs() was removed from public namespace in NetBSD 5.0 to
avoid conflicts with the complex function in C99.
BSD
February 12, 2007 BSD