upstream-man-pages/manglsl/log.xml

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   4 <refentry id="log">
   5     <refmeta>
   6         <refmetainfo>
   7             <copyright>
   8                 <year>2011</year>
   9                 <holder>Khronos Group</holder>
  10             </copyright>
  11         </refmetainfo>
  12         <refentrytitle>log</refentrytitle>
  13         <manvolnum>3G</manvolnum>
  14     </refmeta>
  15     <refnamediv>
  16         <refname>log</refname>
  17         <refpurpose>return the natural logarithm of the parameter</refpurpose>
  18     </refnamediv>
  19     <refsynopsisdiv><title>Declaration</title>
  20         <funcsynopsis>
  21             <funcprototype>
  22                 <funcdef>genType <function>log</function></funcdef>
  23                 <paramdef>genType <parameter>x</parameter></paramdef>
  24             </funcprototype>
  25         </funcsynopsis>
  26     </refsynopsisdiv>
  27     <refsect1 id="parameters"><title>Parameters</title>
  28         <variablelist>
  29         <varlistentry>
  30             <term><parameter>x</parameter></term>
  31             <listitem>
  32                 <para>
  33                     Specify the value of which to take the natural logarithm.
  34                 </para>
  35             </listitem>
  36         </varlistentry>
  37         </variablelist>
  38     </refsect1>
  39     <refsect1 id="description"><title>Description</title>
  40         <para>
  41             <function>log</function> returns the natural logarithm of <parameter>x</parameter>. i.e., the value
  42             <inlineequation><mml:math><mml:mi>y</mml:mi></mml:math></inlineequation> which satisfies
  43             <inlineequation><mml:math><mml:apply><mml:eq /><mml:mi>x</mml:mi><mml:mrow><mml:msup><mml:mi>e</mml:mi><mml:mi>y</mml:mi></mml:msup></mml:mrow></mml:apply></mml:math></inlineequation>.
  44         </para>
  45     </refsect1>
  46     <refsect1 id="versions"><title>Version Support</title>
  47         <informaltable frame="topbot">
  48             #VARTABLECOLS#
  49                 <thead>
  50                     #FUNCTABLEHEADER#
  51                     <row>
  52                         <entry>log (genType)</entry>#newin11#
  53                     </row>
  54                 </thead>
  55             </tgroup>
  56         </informaltable>
  57     </refsect1>
  58     <refsect1 id="seealso"><title>See Also</title>
  59         <para>
  60             <citerefentry><refentrytitle>sin</refentrytitle></citerefentry>,
  61             <citerefentry><refentrytitle>cos</refentrytitle></citerefentry>,
  62             <citerefentry><refentrytitle>sinh</refentrytitle></citerefentry>,
  63             <citerefentry><refentrytitle>cosh</refentrytitle></citerefentry>
  64         </para>
  65     </refsect1>
  66     <refsect1 id="Copyright"><title>Copyright</title>
  67         <para>
  68             Copyright <trademark class="copyright"></trademark> 2011 Khronos Group.
  69             This material may be distributed subject to the terms and conditions set forth in
  70             the Open Publication License, v 1.0, 8 June 1999.
  71             <ulink url="http://opencontent.org/openpub/">http://opencontent.org/openpub/</ulink>.
  72         </para>
  73     </refsect1>
  74 </refentry>