complex.h(3HEAD) Headers complex.h(3HEAD)
NAME
complex.h, complex - complex arithmetic
SYNOPSIS
#include <complex.h>
DESCRIPTION
The <complex.h> header defines the following macros:
complex Expands to _Complex.
_Complex_I Expands to a constant expression of type const float _Complex, with the value of the imaginary unit (that is, a number i
such that i2-1).
imaginary Expands to _Imaginary.
_Imaginary_I Expands to a constant expression of type const float _Imaginary with the value of the imaginary unit.
I Expands to either _Imaginary_I or _Complex_I. If _Imaginary_I is not defined, I expands to _Complex_I.
An application can undefine and then, if appropriate, redefine the complex, imaginary, and I macros.
USAGE
Values are interpreted as radians, not degrees.
ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
| ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
|Interface Stability |Standard |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
SEE ALSO
cabs(3M), cacos(3M), cacosh(3M), carg(3M), casin(3M), casinh(3M), catan(3M), catanh(3M), ccos(3M), ccosh(3M), cexp(3M), cimag(3M),
clog(3M), conj(3M), cpow(3M), cproj(3M), creal(3M), csin(3M), csinh(3M), csqrt(3M), ctan(3M), ctanh(3M), attributes(5), standards(5)
NOTES
The choice of I instead of i for the imaginary unit concedes to the widespread use of the identifier i for other purposes. The application
can use a different identifier, say j, for the imaginary unit by following the inclusion of the <complex.h> header with:
#undef I
#define j _Imaginary_I
An I suffix to designate imaginary constants is not required, as multiplication by I provides a sufficiently convenient and more generally
useful notation for imaginary terms. The corresponding real type for the imaginary unit is float, so that use of I for algorithmic or nota-
tional convenience does not result in widening types.
On systems with imaginary types, the application has the ability to control whether use of the macro I introduces an imaginary type, by
explicitly defining I to be _Imaginary_I or _Complex_I.
Disallowing imaginary types is useful for some applications intended to run on implementations without support for such types.
The macro _Imaginary_I provides a test for whether imaginary types are supported. The cis() function (cos(x) + I*sin(x)) was considered but
rejected because its implementation is easy and straightforward, even though some implementations could compute sine and cosine more effi-
ciently in tandem.
SunOS 5.10 17 Dec 2003 complex.h(3HEAD)
