/* sqrt.c: bcmath library file. */ /* Copyright (C) 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1997 Free Software Foundation, Inc. Copyright (C) 2000 Philip A. Nelson This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. This library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU Lesser General Public License for more details. (LICENSE) You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public License along with this library; if not, write to: The Free Software Foundation, Inc. 59 Temple Place, Suite 330 Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA. You may contact the author by: e-mail: philnelson@acm.org us-mail: Philip A. Nelson Computer Science Department, 9062 Western Washington University Bellingham, WA 98226-9062 *************************************************************************/ #include "bcmath.h" #include #include /* Take the square root NUM and return it in NUM with SCALE digits after the decimal place. */ bool bc_sqrt(bc_num *num, size_t scale) { /* Initial checks. */ int cmp_res = bc_compare(*num, BCG(_zero_)); if (cmp_res < 0) { return false; /* error */ } else { if (cmp_res == 0) { bc_free_num (num); *num = bc_copy_num(BCG(_zero_)); return true; } } cmp_res = bc_compare(*num, BCG(_one_)); if (cmp_res == 0) { bc_free_num (num); *num = bc_copy_num(BCG(_one_)); return true; } /* Initialize the variables. */ size_t rscale; size_t cscale; bc_num guess, guess1, point5, diff; rscale = MAX (scale, (*num)->n_scale); bc_init_num(&guess1); bc_init_num(&diff); point5 = bc_new_num (1, 1); point5->n_value[1] = 5; /* Calculate the initial guess. */ if (cmp_res < 0) { /* The number is between 0 and 1. Guess should start at 1. */ guess = bc_copy_num(BCG(_one_)); cscale = (*num)->n_scale; } else { /* The number is greater than 1. Guess should start at 10^(exp/2). */ bc_init_num(&guess); bc_int2num(&guess, 10); bc_int2num(&guess1, (*num)->n_len); bc_multiply(guess1, point5, &guess1, 0); guess1->n_scale = 0; bc_raise_bc_exponent(guess, guess1, &guess, 0); bc_free_num (&guess1); cscale = 3; } /* Find the square root using Newton's algorithm. */ bool done = false; while (!done) { bc_free_num (&guess1); guess1 = bc_copy_num(guess); bc_divide(*num, guess, &guess, cscale); bc_add(guess, guess1, &guess, 0); bc_multiply(guess, point5, &guess, cscale); bc_sub(guess, guess1, &diff, cscale + 1); if (bc_is_near_zero(diff, cscale)) { if (cscale < rscale + 1) { cscale = MIN (cscale * 3, rscale + 1); } else { done = true; } } } /* Assign the number and clean up. */ bc_free_num (num); bc_divide(guess, BCG(_one_), num, rscale); bc_free_num (&guess); bc_free_num (&guess1); bc_free_num (&point5); bc_free_num (&diff); return true; }