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.TH CIMAG 3 2013-06-21 "" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
.SH NAME
cimag, cimagf, cimagl \- get imaginary part of a complex number
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B #include <complex.h>
.sp
.BI "double cimag(double complex " z ");"
.br
.BI "float cimagf(float complex " z ");"
.br
.BI "long double cimagl(long double complex " z ");"
.sp
Link with \fI\-lm\fP.
.SH DESCRIPTION
The
.BR cimag ()
function returns the imaginary part of the complex number
.IR z .
.LP
One has:
.nf

    z = creal(z) + I * cimag(z)
.fi
.SH VERSIONS
These functions first appeared in glibc in version 2.1.
.SH ATTRIBUTES
.SS Multithreading (see pthreads(7))
The
.BR cimag (),
.BR cimagf (),
and
.BR cimagl ()
functions are thread-safe.
.SH CONFORMING TO
C99.
.SH NOTES
gcc also supports __imag__.
That is a GNU extension.
.SH SEE ALSO
.BR cabs (3),
.BR creal (3),
.BR complex (7)
.SH COLOPHON
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