cimag - Man Page

get imaginary part of a complex number

Library

Math library (libm, -lm)

Synopsis

#include <complex.h>

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

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).

InterfaceAttributeValue
cimag(), cimagf(), cimagl()Thread safetyMT-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

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

Referenced By

cabs(3), cacosh(3), casinh(3), catanh(3), complex(7), creal(3).

The man pages cimagf(3) and cimagl(3) are aliases of cimag(3).

2024-05-02 Linux man-pages 6.9.1