/* * Copyright (c) 1985 Regents of the University of California. * All rights reserved. * * Redistribution and use in source and binary forms are permitted * provided that this notice is preserved and that due credit is given * to the University of California at Berkeley. The name of the University * may not be used to endorse or promote products derived from this * software without specific prior written permission. This software * is provided ``as is'' without express or implied warranty. * * All recipients should regard themselves as participants in an ongoing * research project and hence should feel obligated to report their * experiences (good or bad) with these elementary function codes, using * the sendbug(8) program, to the authors. */ #ifndef lint static char sccsid[] = "@(#)cbrt.c 5.3 (Berkeley) 04/29/88"; #endif /* not lint */ /* kahan's cube root (53 bits IEEE double precision) * for IEEE machines only * coded in C by K.C. Ng, 4/30/85 * * Accuracy: * better than 0.667 ulps according to an error analysis. Maximum * error observed was 0.666 ulps in an 1,000,000 random arguments test. * * Warning: this code is semi machine dependent; the ordering of words in * a floating point number must be known in advance. I assume that the * long interger at the address of a floating point number will be the * leading 32 bits of that floating point number (i.e., sign, exponent, * and the 20 most significant bits). * On a National machine, it has different ordering; therefore, this code * must be compiled with flag -DNATIONAL. */ #if !defined(vax)&&!defined(tahoe) static unsigned long B1 = 715094163, /* B1 = (682-0.03306235651)*2**20 */ B2 = 696219795; /* B2 = (664-0.03306235651)*2**20 */ static double C= 19./35., D= -864./1225., E= 99./70., F= 45./28., G= 5./14.; double cbrt(x) double x; { double r,s,t=0.0,w; unsigned long *px = (unsigned long *) &x, *pt = (unsigned long *) &t, mexp,sign; #ifdef national /* ordering of words in a floating points number */ int n0=1,n1=0; #else /* national */ int n0=0,n1=1; #endif /* national */ mexp=px[n0]&0x7ff00000; if(mexp==0x7ff00000) return(x); /* cbrt(NaN,INF) is itself */ if(x==0.0) return(x); /* cbrt(0) is itself */ sign=px[n0]&0x80000000; /* sign= sign(x) */ px[n0] ^= sign; /* x=|x| */ /* rough cbrt to 5 bits */ if(mexp==0) /* subnormal number */ {pt[n0]=0x43500000; /* set t= 2**54 */ t*=x; pt[n0]=pt[n0]/3+B2; } else pt[n0]=px[n0]/3+B1; /* new cbrt to 23 bits, may be implemented in single precision */ r=t*t/x; s=C+r*t; t*=G+F/(s+E+D/s); /* chopped to 20 bits and make it larger than cbrt(x) */ pt[n1]=0; pt[n0]+=0x00000001; /* one step newton iteration to 53 bits with error less than 0.667 ulps */ s=t*t; /* t*t is exact */ r=x/s; w=t+t; r=(r-t)/(w+r); /* r-t is exact */ t=t+t*r; /* retore the sign bit */ pt[n0] |= sign; return(t); } #endif