The erfl
function is defined in the <tgmath.h>
header file in C. It takes in a single parameter: a long double
value. It then computes the error function of the given argument and returns a value of type long double
.
The
erf =
The argument to the
erfl
function serves as the upper limit in the integral above.
The error function is often used in probability and statistics. It integrates the normal distribution and gives the probability that a normally distributed random variable Y (with mean 0 and variance ½) falls into the range [−x, x].
The illustration below shows how the erfl
function works:
The erfl
function is defined as follows:
long double erfl(long double arg);
It takes in a single value of type long double
and computes its error function. It then returns the answer of type long double
.
The erfl
function returns special values for certain arguments:
NAN
, NAN
is returnedThe following code snippet shows how we can use the erfl
function:
#include <stdio.h> // Including header file for printf function#include <math.h> // Including header file for erf functionint main (){long double param, result;param = 2.0;result = erfl(param);printf("erfl (%Lf) = %Lf\n", param, result);return 0;}
The following code snippet shows how error handling in the erfl
function works:
#include <stdio.h> // Including header file for printf function#include <math.h> // Including header file for erf functionint main (){long double param = 0.0;printf("erfl (%Lf) = %Lf\n", param, erfl(0.0));return 0;}