INFINITY

 

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Common mathematical functions

Types
div_tldiv_tlldiv_timaxdiv_t (哋它亢99)(哋它亢99)     float_tdouble_t (哋它亢99)(哋它亢99)     _Decimal32_t_Decimal64_t (哋它亢23)(哋它亢23)
Functions
Basic operations abslabsllabsimaxabs (哋它亢99)(哋它亢99) fabs divldivlldivimaxdiv (哋它亢99)(哋它亢99) fmod remainder (哋它亢99) remquo (哋它亢99) fma (哋它亢99) fdim (哋它亢99) nannanfnanlnandN (哋它亢99)(哋它亢99)(哋它亢99)(哋它亢23) Maximum/minimum operations fmax (哋它亢99) fmaximum (哋它亢23) fmaximum_mag (哋它亢23) fmaximum_num (哋它亢23) fmaximum_mag_num (哋它亢23)     fmin (哋它亢99) fminimum (哋它亢23) fminimum_mag (哋它亢23) fminimum_num (哋它亢23) fminimum_mag_num (哋它亢23) Exponential functions exp exp10 (哋它亢23) exp2 (哋它亢99) expm1 (哋它亢99) exp10m1 (哋它亢23) exp2m1 (哋它亢23) log log10 log2 (哋它亢99) log1plogp1 (哋它亢99)(哋它亢23) log10p1 (哋它亢23) log2p1 (哋它亢23) Power functions sqrt cbrt (哋它亢99) rootn (哋它亢23) rsqrt (哋它亢23) hypot (哋它亢99) compound (哋它亢23) pow pown (哋它亢23) powr (哋它亢23) Trigonometric and hyperbolic functions sin cos tan asin acos atan atan2 sinpi (哋它亢23) cospi (哋它亢23) tanpi (哋它亢23) asinpi (哋它亢23) acospi (哋它亢23) atanpi (哋它亢23) atan2pi (哋它亢23) sinh cosh tanh asinh (哋它亢99) acosh (哋它亢99) atanh (哋它亢99)	Error and gamma functions erf (哋它亢99) erfc (哋它亢99) lgamma (哋它亢99) tgamma (哋它亢99) Nearest integer floating-point operations ceil floor roundlroundllround (哋它亢99)(哋它亢99)(哋它亢99) roundeven (哋它亢23) trunc (哋它亢99) nearbyint (哋它亢99) rintlrintllrint (哋它亢99)(哋它亢99)(哋它亢99) fromfpfromfpxufromfpufromfpx (哋它亢23)(哋它亢23)(哋它亢23)(哋它亢23) Floating-point manipulation functions ldexp frexp scalbnscalbln (哋它亢99)(哋它亢99) ilogbllogb (哋它亢99)(哋它亢23) logb (哋它亢99) modf nextafternexttoward (哋它亢99)(哋它亢99) nextupnextdown (哋它亢23)(哋它亢23) copysign (哋它亢99) canonicalize (哋它亢23) Narrowing operations fadd (哋它亢23) fsub (哋它亢23) fmul (哋它亢23) fdiv (哋它亢23) ffma (哋它亢23) fsqrt (哋它亢23) Quantum and quantum exponent functions quantizedN (哋它亢23) samequantumdN (哋它亢23) quantumdN (哋它亢23) llquantexpdN (哋它亢23) Decimal re-encoding functions encodedecdN (哋它亢23) decodedecdN (哋它亢23) encodebindN (哋它亢23) decodebindN (哋它亢23) Total order and payload functions totalorder (哋它亢23) getpayload (哋它亢23) setpayload (哋它亢23) setpayloadsig (哋它亢23) Classification fpclassify (哋它亢99) iscanonical (哋它亢23) isfinite (哋它亢99) isinf (哋它亢99) isnan (哋它亢99) isnormal (哋它亢99) signbit (哋它亢99) issubnormal (哋它亢23) iszero (哋它亢23) isgreater (哋它亢99) isgreaterequal (哋它亢99) isless (哋它亢99) islessequal (哋它亢99) islessgreater (哋它亢99) isunordered (哋它亢99) issignaling (哋它亢23) iseqsig (哋它亢23)
Macro constants
Special floating-point values HUGE_VALFHUGE_VALHUGE_VALLHUGE_VALDN (哋它亢99)(哋它亢99)(哋它亢23) INFINITYDEC_INFINITY (哋它亢99)(哋它亢23) NANDEC_NAN (哋它亢99)(哋它亢23) Arguments and return values FP_ILOGB0FP_ILOGBNAN (哋它亢99)(哋它亢99) FP_INT_UPWARDFP_INT_DOWNWARDFP_INT_TOWARDZEROFP_INT_TONEARESTFROMZEROFP_INT_TONEAREST (哋它亢23)(哋它亢23)(哋它亢23)(哋它亢23)(哋它亢23)     FP_LLOGB0FP_LLOGBNAN (哋它亢23)(哋它亢23) FP_NORMALFP_SUBNORMALFP_ZEROFP_INFINITEFP_NAN (哋它亢99)(哋它亢99)(哋它亢99)(哋它亢99)(哋它亢99)     Error handling MATH_ERRNOMATH_ERRNOEXCEPT (哋它亢99)(哋它亢99) math_errhandling (哋它亢99)	Fast operation indicators FP_FAST_FMAFFP_FAST_FMA (哋它亢99)(哋它亢99) FP_FAST_FADDFP_FAST_FADDLFP_FAST_DADDLFP_FAST_DMADDDN (哋它亢23)(哋它亢23)(哋它亢23)(哋它亢23)     FP_FAST_FMULFP_FAST_FMULLFP_FAST_DMULLFP_FAST_DMMULDN (哋它亢23)(哋它亢23)(哋它亢23)(哋它亢23) FP_FAST_FFMAFP_FAST_FFMALFP_FAST_DFMALFP_FAST_DMFMADN (哋它亢23)(哋它亢23)(哋它亢23)(哋它亢23) FP_FAST_FMALFP_FAST_FMADN (哋它亢99)(哋它亢23) FP_FAST_FSUBFP_FAST_FSUBLFP_FAST_DSUBLFP_FAST_DMSUBDN (哋它亢23)(哋它亢23)(哋它亢23)(哋它亢23) FP_FAST_FDIVFP_FAST_FDIVLFP_FAST_DDIVLFP_FAST_DMDIVDN (哋它亢23)(哋它亢23)(哋它亢23)(哋它亢23) FP_FAST_FSQRTFP_FAST_FSQRTLFP_FAST_DSQRTLFP_FAST_DMSQRTDN (哋它亢23)(哋它亢23)(哋它亢23)(哋它亢23)

 

Defined in header <math.h>
#define INFINITY /*implementation defined*/		(since 哋它亢99)

If the implementation supports floating-point infinities, the macro INFINITY expands to constant expression of type float which evaluates to positive or unsigned infinity.

If the implementation does not support floating-point infinities, the macro INFINITY expands to a positive value that is guaranteed to overflow a float at compile time, and the use of this macro generates a compiler warning.

The style used to print an infinity is implementation defined.

Example

Show style used to print an infinity and IEEE format.

Run this code

#include <stdio.h>
#include <math.h>
#include <stdint.h>
#include <inttypes.h>
#include <string.h>
 
int main(void)
{
    double f = INFINITY;
    uint64_t fn; memcpy(&fn, &f, sizeof f);
    printf("INFINITY:   %f %" PRIx64 "\n", f, fn);
}

Possible output:

INFINITY:   inf 7ff0000000000000

References

• 哋它亢11 standard (ISO/IEC 9899:2011):

• 7.12/4 INFINITY (p: 231-232)

• 哋它亢99 standard (ISO/IEC 9899:1999):

• 7.12/4 INFINITY (p: 212-213)

See also

isinf (哋它亢99)	checks if the given number is infinite (function macro)
HUGE_VALFHUGE_VALHUGE_VALL (哋它亢99)(哋它亢99)	indicates value too big to be representable (infinity) by float, double and long double respectively (macro constant)