fmod, fmodf, fmodl

 

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Common mathematical functions

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Basic operations
abslabsllabsimaxabs (C99) fabs divldivlldivimaxdiv (C99) fmod	remainder (C99) remquo (C99) fma (C99) fmax (C99) fmin (C99) fdim (C99) nannanfnanl (C99)(C99)(C99)
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exp exp2 (C99) expm1 (C99)	log log10 log1p (C99) log2 (C99)
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sqrt cbrt (C99)	hypot (C99) pow
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sin cos tan asin acos atan atan2	sinh cosh tanh asinh (C99) acosh (C99) atanh (C99)
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erf (C99) erfc (C99)	lgamma (C99) tgamma (C99)
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ceil floor roundlroundllround (C99)(C99)(C99)	trunc (C99) nearbyint (C99) rintlrintllrint (C99)(C99)(C99)
Floating point manipulation functions
ldexp scalbnscalbln (C99)(C99) ilogb (C99) logb (C99)	frexp modf nextafternexttoward (C99)(C99) copysign (C99)
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fpclassify (C99) isfinite (C99) isinf (C99) isnan (C99) isnormal (C99) signbit (C99)	isgreater (C99) isgreaterequal (C99) isless (C99) islessequal (C99) islessgreater (C99) isunordered (C99)
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div_tldiv_tlldiv_timaxdiv_t (C99)(C99)	float_tdouble_t (C99)(C99)
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HUGE_VALFHUGE_VALHUGE_VALL (C99)(C99) FP_FAST_FMAFFP_FAST_FMAFP_FAST_FMAL (C99)(C99)(C99) math_errhandlingMATH_ERRNOMATH_ERRNOEXCEPT (C99)(C99)(C99)	INFINITY (C99) NAN (C99) FP_ILOGB0FP_ILOGBNAN (C99)(C99) FP_NORMALFP_SUBNORMALFP_ZEROFP_INFINITEFP_NAN (C99)(C99)(C99)(C99)(C99)

 

Defined in header <math.h>
float       fmodf( float x, float y );	(1)	(since C99)
double      fmod( double x, double y );	(2)
long double fmodl( long double x, long double y );	(3)	(since C99)
Defined in header <tgmath.h>
#define fmod( x, y )	(4)	(since C99)

1-3) Computes the floating-point remainder of the division operation x/y.

4) Type-generic macro: If any argument has type long double, fmodl is called. Otherwise, if any argument has integer type or has type double, fmod is called. Otherwise, fmodf is called.

The floating-point remainder of the division operation x/y calculated by this function is exactly the value x - n*y, where n is x/y with its fractional part truncated.

The returned value has the same sign as x and is less or equal to y in magnitude.

Parameters

x, y

-

floating point values

Return value

If successful, returns the floating-point remainder of the division x/y as defined above.

If a domain error occurs, an implementation-defined value is returned (NaN where supported).

If a range error occurs due to underflow, the correct result (after rounding) is returned.

Error handling

Errors are reported as specified in math_errhandling.

Domain error may occur if y is zero.

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

• If x is ±0 and y is not zero, ±0 is returned
• If x is ±∞ and y is not NaN, NaN is returned and FE_INVALID is raised
• If y is ±0 and x is not NaN, NaN is returned and FE_INVALID is raised
• If y is ±∞ and x is finite, x is returned.
• If either argument is NaN, NaN is returned

Notes

POSIX requires that a domain error occurs if x is infinite or y is zero.

fmod, but not remainder is useful for doing silent wrapping of floating-point types to unsigned integer types: (0.0 <= (y = fmod(rint(x), 65536.0 )) ? y : 65536.0 + y) is in the range [-0.0 .. 65535.0], which corresponds to unsigned short, but remainder(rint(x), 65536.0 is in the range [-32767.0, +32768.0], which is outside of the range of signed short.

The double version of fmod behaves as if implemented as follows:

double fmod(double x, double y)
{
#pragma STDC FENV_ACCESS ON
    double result = remainder(fabs(x), (y = fabs(y)));
    if (signbit(result)) result += y;
    return copysign(result, x);
}

Example

Run this code

#include <stdio.h>
#include <math.h>
#include <fenv.h>
 
#pragma STDC FENV_ACCESS ON
int main(void)
{
    printf("fmod(+5.1, +3.0) = %.1f\n", fmod(5.1,3));
    printf("fmod(-5.1, +3.0) = %.1f\n", fmod(-5.1,3));
    printf("fmod(+5.1, -3.0) = %.1f\n", fmod(5.1,-3));
    printf("fmod(-5.1, -3.0) = %.1f\n", fmod(-5.1,-3));
 
    // special values
    printf("fmod(+0.0, 1.0) = %.1f\n", fmod(0, 1));
    printf("fmod(-0.0, 1.0) = %.1f\n", fmod(-0.0, 1));
    printf("fmod(+5.1, Inf) = %.1f\n", fmod(5.1, INFINITY));
 
    // error handling
    feclearexcept(FE_ALL_EXCEPT);
    printf("fmod(+5.1, 0) = %.1f\n", fmod(5.1, 0));
    if(fetestexcept(FE_INVALID)) puts("    FE_INVALID raised");
}

Possible output:

fmod(+5.1, +3.0) = 2.1
fmod(-5.1, +3.0) = -2.1
fmod(+5.1, -3.0) = 2.1
fmod(-5.1, -3.0) = -2.1
fmod(+0.0, 1.0) = 0.0
fmod(-0.0, 1.0) = -0.0
fmod(+5.1, Inf) = 5.1
fmod(+5.1, 0) = nan
    FE_INVALID raised

References

• C11 standard (ISO/IEC 9899:2011):

• 7.12.10.1 The fmod functions (p: 254)

• 7.25 Type-generic math <tgmath.h> (p: 373-375)

• F.10.7.1 The fmod functions (p: 528)

• C99 standard (ISO/IEC 9899:1999):

• 7.12.10.1 The fmod functions (p: 235)

• 7.22 Type-generic math <tgmath.h> (p: 335-337)

• F.9.7.1 The fmod functions (p: 465)

• C89/C90 standard (ISO/IEC 9899:1990):

• 4.5.6.4 The fmod function

See also

divldivlldiv (C99)	computes quotient and remainder of integer division (function)
remainderremainderfremainderl (C99)(C99)(C99)	computes signed remainder of the floating-point division operation (function)
remquoremquofremquol (C99)(C99)(C99)	computes signed remainder as well as the three last bits of the division operation (function)
C++ documentation for fmod