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svn+ssh://pythondev@svn.python.org/python/trunk ........ r76861 | mark.dickinson | 2009-12-16 20:13:40 +0000 (Wed, 16 Dec 2009) | 3 lines Issue #3366: Add expm1 function to math module. Thanks Eric Smith for testing on Windows. ........
31 lines
840 B
C
31 lines
840 B
C
/* Definitions of some C99 math library functions, for those platforms
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that don't implement these functions already. */
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#include <float.h>
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#include <math.h>
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/* Mathematically, expm1(x) = exp(x) - 1. The expm1 function is designed
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to avoid the significant loss of precision that arises from direct
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evaluation of the expression exp(x) - 1, for x near 0. */
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double
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_Py_expm1(double x)
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{
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/* For abs(x) >= log(2), it's safe to evaluate exp(x) - 1 directly; this
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also works fine for infinities and nans.
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For smaller x, we can use a method due to Kahan that achieves close to
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full accuracy.
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*/
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if (fabs(x) < 0.7) {
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double u;
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u = exp(x);
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if (u == 1.0)
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return x;
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else
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return (u - 1.0) * x / log(u);
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}
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else
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return exp(x) - 1.0;
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}
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