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9 <holder>Khronos Group
</holder>
12 <refentrytitle>log
</refentrytitle>
13 <manvolnum>3G
</manvolnum>
16 <refname>log
</refname>
17 <refpurpose>return the natural logarithm of the parameter
</refpurpose>
19 <refsynopsisdiv><title>Declaration
</title>
22 <funcdef>genType
<function>log
</function></funcdef>
23 <paramdef>genType
<parameter>x
</parameter></paramdef>
27 <refsect1 id=
"parameters"><title>Parameters
</title>
30 <term><parameter>x
</parameter></term>
33 Specify the value of which to take the natural logarithm.
39 <refsect1 id=
"description"><title>Description
</title>
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>.
46 <refsect1 id=
"versions"><title>Version Support
</title>
47 <informaltable frame=
"topbot">
52 <entry>log (genType)
</entry>#newin11#
58 <refsect1 id=
"seealso"><title>See Also
</title>
60 <citerefentry><refentrytitle>sin
</refentrytitle></citerefentry>,
61 <citerefentry><refentrytitle>cos
</refentrytitle></citerefentry>,
62 <citerefentry><refentrytitle>sinh
</refentrytitle></citerefentry>,
63 <citerefentry><refentrytitle>cosh
</refentrytitle></citerefentry>
66 <refsect1 id=
"Copyright"><title>Copyright
</title>
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.
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"http://opencontent.org/openpub/">http://opencontent.org/openpub/
</ulink>.