std:: logb, std:: logbf, std:: logbl

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Macro constants
Defined in header <cmath>
(1)
float logb ( float num ) ;

double logb ( double num ) ;

long double logb ( long double num ) ;
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constexpr /* floating-point-type */
logb ( /* floating-point-type */ num ) ;
(since C++23)
float logbf ( float num ) ;
(2) (since C++11)
(constexpr since C++23)
long double logbl ( long double num ) ;
(3) (since C++11)
(constexpr since C++23)
Defined in header <cmath>
template < class Integer >
double logb ( Integer num ) ;
(A) (constexpr since C++23)
1-3) Extracts the value of the unbiased radix-independent exponent from the floating-point argument num , and returns it as a floating-point value. The library provides overloads of std::logb for all cv-unqualified floating-point types as the type of the parameter. (since C++23)
A) Additional overloads are provided for all integer types, which are treated as double .
(since C++11)

Formally, the unbiased exponent is the signed integral part of log r |num| (returned by this function as a floating-point value), for non-zero num , where r is std:: numeric_limits < T > :: radix and T is the floating-point type of num . If num is subnormal, it is treated as though it was normalized.

Parameters

num - floating-point or integer value

Return value

If no errors occur, the unbiased exponent of num is returned as a signed floating-point value.

If a domain error occurs, an implementation-defined value is returned.

If a pole error occurs, -HUGE_VAL , -HUGE_VALF , or -HUGE_VALL is returned.

Error handling

Errors are reported as specified in math_errhandling .

Domain or range error may occur if num is zero.

If the implementation supports IEEE floating-point arithmetic (IEC 60559),

Notes

POSIX requires that a pole error occurs if num is ±0.

The value of the exponent returned by std::logb is always 1 less than the exponent returned by std::frexp because of the different normalization requirements: for the exponent e returned by std::logb , |num*r -e | is between 1 and r (typically between 1 and 2 ), but for the exponent e returned by std::frexp , |num*2 -e | is between 0.5 and 1 .

The additional overloads are not required to be provided exactly as (A) . They only need to be sufficient to ensure that for their argument num of integer type, std :: logb ( num ) has the same effect as std :: logb ( static_cast < double > ( num ) ) .

Example

Compares different floating-point decomposition functions:

#include <cfenv>
#include <cmath>
#include <iostream>
#include <limits>
// #pragma STDC FENV_ACCESS ON
 
int main()
{
    double f = 123.45;
    std::cout << "Given the number " << f << " or " << std::hexfloat
              << f << std::defaultfloat << " in hex,\n";
 
    double f3;
    double f2 = std::modf(f, &f3);
    std::cout << "modf() makes " << f3 << " + " << f2 << '\n';
 
    int i;
    f2 = std::frexp(f, &i);
    std::cout << "frexp() makes " << f2 << " * 2^" << i << '\n';
 
    i = std::ilogb(f);
    std::cout << "logb()/ilogb() make " << f / std::scalbn(1.0, i) << " * "
              << std::numeric_limits<double>::radix
              << "^" << std::ilogb(f) << '\n';
 
    // error handling
    std::feclearexcept(FE_ALL_EXCEPT);
 
    std::cout << "logb(0) = " << std::logb(0) << '\n';
    if (std::fetestexcept(FE_DIVBYZERO))
        std::cout << "    FE_DIVBYZERO raised\n";
}

Possible output:

Given the number 123.45 or 0x1.edccccccccccdp+6 in hex,
modf() makes 123 + 0.45
frexp() makes 0.964453 * 2^7
logb()/ilogb() make 1.92891 * 2^6
logb(0) = -Inf
    FE_DIVBYZERO raised

See also

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decomposes a number into significand and base-2 exponent
(function)
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extracts exponent of the number
(function)
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multiplies a number by FLT_RADIX raised to a power
(function)