The Microsoft C Runtime library (CRT) provides complex math library functions, including all of the ones required by ISO C99. The compiler doesn't directly support a complex
or _Complex
keyword, therefore the Microsoft implementation uses structure types to represent complex numbers.
These functions are implemented to balance performance with correctness. Because producing the correctly rounded result may be prohibitively expensive, these functions are designed to efficiently produce a close approximation to the correctly rounded result. In most cases, the result produced is within +/-1 unit of least precision (ULP) of the correctly rounded result, though there may be cases where there's greater inaccuracy.
The complex math routines rely on the floating point math library functions for their implementation. These functions have different implementations for different CPU architectures. For example, the 32-bit x86 CRT may have a different implementation than the 64-bit x64 CRT. In addition, some of the functions may have multiple implementations for a given CPU architecture. The most efficient implementation is selected dynamically at run-time depending on the instruction sets supported by the CPU. For example, in the 32-bit x86 CRT, some functions have both an x87 implementation and an SSE2 implementation. When running on a CPU that supports SSE2, the faster SSE2 implementation is used. When running on a CPU that doesn't support SSE2, the slower x87 implementation is used. Because different implementations of the math library functions may use different CPU instructions and different algorithms to produce their results, the functions may produce different results across CPUs. In most cases, the results are within +/-1 ULP of the correctly rounded result, but the actual results may vary across CPUs.
Types used in complex mathThe Microsoft implementation of the complex.h
header defines these types as equivalents for the C99 standard native complex types:
float complex
or float _Complex
_Fcomplex
double complex
or double _Complex
_Dcomplex
long double complex
or long double _Complex
_Lcomplex
The math.h
header defines a separate type, struct _complex
, used for the _cabs
function. The struct _complex
type isn't used by the equivalent complex math functions cabs
, cabsf
, cabsl
.
I
is defined as the complex type _Fcomplex
initialized by { 0.0f, 1.0f }
.
cacos
, cacosf
, cacosl
Compute the complex arc cosine of a complex number casin
, casinf
, casinl
Compute the complex arc sine of a complex number catan
, catanf
, catanl
Compute the complex arc tangent of a complex number ccos
, ccosf
, ccosl
Compute the complex cosine of a complex number csin
, csinf
, csinl
Compute the complex sine of a complex number ctan
, ctanf
, ctanl
Compute the complex tangent of a complex number Hyperbolic functions Function Description cacosh
, cacoshf
, cacoshl
Compute the complex arc hyperbolic cosine of a complex number casinh
, casinhf
, casinhl
Compute the complex arc hyperbolic sine of a complex number catanh
, catanhf
, catanhl
Compute the complex arc hyperbolic tangent of a complex number ccosh
, ccoshf
, ccoshl
Compute the complex hyperbolic cosine of a complex number csinh
, csinhf
, csinhl
Compute the complex hyperbolic sine of a complex number ctanh
, ctanhf
, ctanhl
Compute the complex hyperbolic tangent of a complex number Exponential and logarithmic functions Power and absolute-value functions Manipulation functions Function Description _Cbuild
, _FCbuild
, _LCbuild
Construct a complex number from real and imaginary parts carg
, cargf
, cargl
Compute the argument (also called the phase angle) of a complex number cimag
, cimagf
, cimagl
Compute the imaginary part of a complex number conj
, conjf
, conjl
Compute the complex conjugate of a complex number cproj
, cprojf
, cprojl
Compute a projection of a complex number onto the Riemann sphere creal
, crealf
, creall
Compute the real part of a complex number norm
, normf
, norml
Compute the squared magnitude of a complex number Operation functions
Because complex numbers aren't a native type in the Microsoft compiler, the standard arithmetic operators aren't defined on complex types. For convenience, these complex math library functions are provided to enable limited manipulation of complex numbers in user code:
See alsoType-generic math
Universal C runtime routines by category
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