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authorAlejandro Colomar <alx@kernel.org>2025-06-08 20:17:14 +0200
committerAlejandro Colomar <alx@kernel.org>2025-06-08 23:17:03 +0200
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man/man3/scalb*.3: NAME: Document the meaning of the name of these functions
Cc: Alex Celeste <alexg.nvfp@gmail.com> Reported-by: Jorenar <dev@jorenar.com> Suggested-by: "Fred J. Tydeman" <tydeman@tybor.com> Signed-off-by: Alejandro Colomar <alx@kernel.org>
-rw-r--r--man/man3/scalb.35
-rw-r--r--man/man3/scalbln.32
2 files changed, 4 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/man/man3/scalb.3 b/man/man3/scalb.3
index 9648174084..6968931ba1 100644
--- a/man/man3/scalb.3
+++ b/man/man3/scalb.3
@@ -5,8 +5,9 @@
.\"
.TH scalb 3 (date) "Linux man-pages (unreleased)"
.SH NAME
-scalb, scalbf, scalbl \- multiply floating-point number
-by integral power of radix (OBSOLETE)
+scalb, scalbf, scalbl
+\-
+scale by an integer power of radix (OBSOLETE)
.SH LIBRARY
Math library
.RI ( libm ,\~ \-lm )
diff --git a/man/man3/scalbln.3 b/man/man3/scalbln.3
index 7b1b8c3841..e14c1be259 100644
--- a/man/man3/scalbln.3
+++ b/man/man3/scalbln.3
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
.TH scalbln 3 (date) "Linux man-pages (unreleased)"
.SH NAME
scalbn, scalbnf, scalbnl, scalbln, scalblnf, scalblnl \-
-multiply floating-point number by integral power of radix
+scale by an integer power of radix
.SH LIBRARY
Math library
.RI ( libm ,\~ \-lm )