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.\" Copyright 2002 Walter Harms (walter.harms@informatik.uni-oldenburg.de)
.\" Distributed under GPL
.\"
.TH CABS 3 2002-07-28 "" "complex math routines"
.SH NAME
cabs, cabsf, cabsl \- absolute value of a complex number 
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B #include <complex.h>
.sp
.BI "double cabs(double complex " z );
.sp
.BI "float cabsf(float complex " z );
.sp
.BI "long double cabsl(long double complex " z );
.sp
Link with \-lm.
.SH DESCRIPTION
The cabs() function returns the absolute value of the complex number z. The
result is a real number. 
.SH NOTE
The function is actually an alias for hypot(a,b) = sqrt(a*a+b*b).
.SH "CONFORMING TO"
C99
.SH "SEE ALSO"
.BR abs (3),
.BR cimag (3),
.BR hypot (3),
.BR complex (5)