From: Alejandro Colomar <alx@kernel.org>
To: Morten Welinder <mwelinder@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-man@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Man page issues: logb, significand, cbrt, log2, log10, exp10
Date: Tue, 5 Mar 2024 02:18:55 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ZeZy_0HpoRVFN4RZ@debian> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CANv4PNkVv_0eLgiSP3L_KfC-eZJaVLZ5AP1AGfD0GNrR5M4Hrg@mail.gmail.com>
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On Thu, Feb 29, 2024 at 07:28:10PM -0500, Morten Welinder wrote:
> log2, log10:
> These use, e.g., "base 2 logarithm". Compare that to exp2's "base-2
> exponential" (with a hyphen). I am leaning towards the hyphenated
> version being correct, but I am not a native English speaker.
Agree.
Have a lovely night,
Alex
commit daffbd4861cfd0534802dbed3122e2f95d9afcd0 (HEAD -> contrib, alx/contrib)
Author: Alejandro Colomar <alx@kernel.org>
Date: Tue Mar 5 02:15:14 2024 +0100
log2.3, log10.3: wfix
Reported-by: Morten Welinder <mwelinder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Alejandro Colomar <alx@kernel.org>
diff --git a/man3/log10.3 b/man3/log10.3
index 415a77c5a..40e43117a 100644
--- a/man3/log10.3
+++ b/man3/log10.3
@@ -42,10 +42,10 @@ .SH SYNOPSIS
|| /* glibc <= 2.19: */ _BSD_SOURCE || _SVID_SOURCE
.fi
.SH DESCRIPTION
-These functions return the base 10 logarithm of
+These functions return the base-10 logarithm of
.IR x .
.SH RETURN VALUE
-On success, these functions return the base 10 logarithm of
+On success, these functions return the base-10 logarithm of
.IR x .
.P
For special cases, including where
diff --git a/man3/log2.3 b/man3/log2.3
index 62103fe46..11d8c3cc2 100644
--- a/man3/log2.3
+++ b/man3/log2.3
@@ -41,10 +41,10 @@ .SH SYNOPSIS
_ISOC99_SOURCE || _POSIX_C_SOURCE >= 200112L
.fi
.SH DESCRIPTION
-These functions return the base 2 logarithm of
+These functions return the base-2 logarithm of
.IR x .
.SH RETURN VALUE
-On success, these functions return the base 2 logarithm of
+On success, these functions return the base-2 logarithm of
.IR x .
.P
For special cases, including where
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Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2024-03-01 0:28 Man page issues: logb, significand, cbrt, log2, log10, exp10 Morten Welinder
2024-03-01 0:53 ` Alejandro Colomar
2024-03-02 21:17 ` Morten Welinder
2024-03-02 21:54 ` Alejandro Colomar
2024-03-03 2:02 ` Morten Welinder
2024-03-03 2:21 ` Alejandro Colomar
2024-03-03 11:46 ` Vincent Lefevre
2024-03-03 12:21 ` Alejandro Colomar
2024-03-03 22:26 ` Morten Welinder
2024-03-04 12:17 ` Adhemerval Zanella Netto
2024-03-04 17:52 ` logb() vs floor(log2()) (was: Man page issues: logb, significand, cbrt, log2, log10, exp10) Alejandro Colomar
2024-03-04 18:47 ` logb() vs floor(log2()) Adhemerval Zanella Netto
2024-03-04 22:16 ` Alejandro Colomar
2024-03-04 23:23 ` logb() vs floor(log2()) (was: Man page issues: logb, significand, cbrt, log2, log10, exp10) Alejandro Colomar
2024-03-05 0:46 ` Man page issues: logb, significand, cbrt, log2, log10, exp10 Alejandro Colomar
2024-03-05 1:05 ` Alejandro Colomar
2024-03-05 1:18 ` Alejandro Colomar [this message]
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