freebsd man page for scalbnl

SCALBN(3)						   BSD Library Functions Manual 						 SCALBN(3)

NAME
     scalbln, scalblnf, scalblnl, scalbn, scalbnf, scalbnl -- adjust exponent

LIBRARY
     Math Library (libm, -lm)

SYNOPSIS
     #include <math.h>

     double
     scalbln(double x, long n);

     float
     scalblnf(float x, long n);

     long double
     scalblnl(long double x, long n);

     double
     scalbn(double x, int n);

     float
     scalbnf(float x, int n);

     long double
     scalbnl(long double x, int n);

DESCRIPTION
     These routines return x*(2**n) computed by exponent manipulation.

SEE ALSO
     ieee(3), math(3)

STANDARDS
     These routines conform to ISO/IEC 9899:1999 (``ISO C99''), and they implement the Scalb function recommended by IEEE Std 754-1985.

HISTORY
     The scalbn() and scalbnf() functions appeared in 4.3BSD and FreeBSD 2.0, respectively.  The scalbln() and scalblnf() functions first appeared
     in FreeBSD 5.3, and scalblnl() and scalbln() in FreeBSD 6.0.

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								   March 4, 2005							       BSD