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cimagl

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get imaginary part of a complex number

Library functionsmanpages-dev 6.9.1-1also documents cimag, cimagf
#include <complex.h> double cimag(double complex z); float cimagf(float complex z); long double cimagl(long double complex z);

LIBRARY

Math library (libm, -lm)

DESCRIPTION

These functions return the imaginary part of the complex number z.

One has:


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

ATTRIBUTES

For an explanation of the terms used in this section, see attributes(7).

Interface Attribute Value
cimag (), cimagf (), cimagl () Thread safety MT-Safe

VERSIONS

GCC also supports __imag__. That is a GNU extension.

STANDARDS

C11, POSIX.1-2008.

HISTORY

glibc 2.1. C99, POSIX.1-2001.

See also