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# What is logb in C?

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The logb function is defined in the <math.h> header file in C. It takes in a single parameter x of type double. It then computes the logarithm of $|x|$ using FLT_RADIX as the base and returns the result of the double type.

FLT_RADIX has a value of 2 in most platforms. Thus, the function performs similar to log2 for positive values.

The illustration below shows how the logb function works:

How does logb work?

## Declaration

The logb function is defined as follows:

double logb(double x);


## Parameters

The logb function takes a single value of type double as a parameter.

## Return value

The logb function returns the computation of type double.

## Error handling

The logb function returns special values for certain arguments:

x Return Value
0 -INFINITY
INFINITY +INFINITY
NaN NaN

## Example

The following code snippet shows how we can use the logb function:

#include <stdio.h> // include header for printf#include <math.h>  // include header for logbint main (){  double x, result;  x = 8.0;  result = logb(x);  printf("logb (%f) = %f.\n", x, result);  return 0;}

The following code snippet shows how error handling in the logb function works:

#include <stdio.h> // include header for printf#include <math.h>  // include header for logbint main (){  double x, y, result;  x = 0.0;  result = logb(x);  printf("logb (%f) = %f.\n", x, result);  y = INFINITY;  result = logb(y);  printf("logb (%f) = %f.\n", y, result);  return 0;}

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