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CIMAG(3) Linux Programmer's Manual CIMAG(3)

NAME

cimag, cimagf, cimagl - get imaginary part of a complex number

SYNOPSIS

#include <complex.h>

double cimag(double complex z);
float cimagf(float complex z);
long double cimagl(long double complex z);

Link with -lm.

DESCRIPTION

The cimag() function returns the imaginary part of the complex number z.

One has:


z = creal(z) + I * cimag(z)

VERSIONS

These functions first appeared in glibc in version 2.1.

ATTRIBUTES

Multithreading (see pthreads(7))

The cimag(), cimagf(), and cimagl() functions are thread-safe.

CONFORMING TO

C99.

NOTES

gcc also supports __imag__. That is a GNU extension.

SEE ALSO

cabs(3), creal(3), complex(7)

COLOPHON

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2013-06-21