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Technical Reference: Base Operating System and Extensions, Volume 2

tgamma, tgammaf, or tgammal Subroutine

Purpose

Computes the gamma.

Syntax

#include <math.h>

double tgamma (x)
double x;

float tgammaf (x)
float x;

long double tgammal (x)
long double x;

Description

The tgamma, tgammaf, and tgammal subroutines compute the gamma function of x.

An application wishing to check for error situations should set errno to zero and call feclearexcept(FE_ALL_EXCEPT) before calling these subroutines. Upon return, if errno is nonzero or fetestexcept(FE_INVALID | FE_DIVBYZERO | FE_OVERFLOW | FE_UNDERFLOW) is nonzero, an error has occurred.

Parameters

x Specifies the value to be computed.

Return Values

Upon successful completion, the tgamma, tgammaf, and tgammal subroutines return Gamma(x).

If x is a negative integer, a domain error occurs, and either a NaN (if supported), or an implementation-defined value is returned.

If the correct value would cause overflow, a range error occurs and the tgamma, tgammaf, and tgammal subroutines return the value of the macro HUGE_VAL, HUGE_VALF, or HUGE_VALL, respectively.

If x is NaN, a NaN is returned.

If x is +Inf, x is returned.

If x is ±0, a pole error occurs, and the tgamma, tgammaf, and tgammal subroutines return ±HUGE_VAL, ±HUGE_VALF, and ±HUGE_VALL, respectively.

If x is -Inf, a domain error occurs, and either a NaN (if supported), or an implementation-defined value is returned.

Related Information

feclearexcept Subroutine, fetestexcept Subroutine, and lgamma, lgammal, or gamma Subroutine in AIX 5L Version 5.2 Technical Reference: Base Operating System and Extensions Volume 1.

math.h in AIX 5L Version 5.2 Files Reference.

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