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6 pow, powf, powl - power functions
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9 #include <math.h>
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11 double pow(double x, double y);
12 float powf(float x, float y);
13 long double powl(long double x, long double y);
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18 The pow() function returns the value of x raised to the power of y.
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21 The pow() function can return the following error:
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23 EDOM The argument x is negative and y is not an integral value. This
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27 SVr4, 4.3BSD, C89. The float and long double variants are C99 require‐
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31 cbrt(3), cpow(3), sqrt(3)
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