Annotation of 43BSD/usr.lib/libm/asincos.c, revision 1.1.1.1

1.1       root        1: /* 
                      2:  * Copyright (c) 1985 Regents of the University of California.
                      3:  * 
                      4:  * Use and reproduction of this software are granted  in  accordance  with
                      5:  * the terms and conditions specified in  the  Berkeley  Software  License
                      6:  * Agreement (in particular, this entails acknowledgement of the programs'
                      7:  * source, and inclusion of this notice) with the additional understanding
                      8:  * that  all  recipients  should regard themselves as participants  in  an
                      9:  * ongoing  research  project and hence should  feel  obligated  to report
                     10:  * their  experiences (good or bad) with these elementary function  codes,
                     11:  * using "sendbug 4bsd-bugs@BERKELEY", to the authors.
                     12:  */
                     13: 
                     14: #ifndef lint
                     15: static char sccsid[] = "@(#)asincos.c  1.1 (Berkeley) 8/21/85";
                     16: #endif not lint
                     17: 
                     18: /* ASIN(X)
                     19:  * RETURNS ARC SINE OF X
                     20:  * DOUBLE PRECISION (IEEE DOUBLE 53 bits, VAX D FORMAT 56 bits)
                     21:  * CODED IN C BY K.C. NG, 4/16/85, REVISED ON 6/10/85.
                     22:  *
                     23:  * Required system supported functions:
                     24:  *     copysign(x,y)
                     25:  *     sqrt(x)
                     26:  *
                     27:  * Required kernel function:
                     28:  *     atan2(y,x) 
                     29:  *
                     30:  * Method :                  
                     31:  *     asin(x) = atan2(x,sqrt(1-x*x)); for better accuracy, 1-x*x is 
                     32:  *               computed as follows
                     33:  *                     1-x*x                     if x <  0.5, 
                     34:  *                     2*(1-|x|)-(1-|x|)*(1-|x|) if x >= 0.5.
                     35:  *
                     36:  * Special cases:
                     37:  *     if x is NaN, return x itself;
                     38:  *     if |x|>1, return NaN.
                     39:  *
                     40:  * Accuracy:
                     41:  * 1)  If atan2() uses machine PI, then
                     42:  * 
                     43:  *     asin(x) returns (PI/pi) * (the exact arc sine of x) nearly rounded;
                     44:  *     and PI is the exact pi rounded to machine precision (see atan2 for
                     45:  *      details):
                     46:  *
                     47:  *     in decimal:
                     48:  *             pi = 3.141592653589793 23846264338327 ..... 
                     49:  *    53 bits   PI = 3.141592653589793 115997963 ..... ,
                     50:  *    56 bits   PI = 3.141592653589793 227020265 ..... ,  
                     51:  *
                     52:  *     in hexadecimal:
                     53:  *             pi = 3.243F6A8885A308D313198A2E....
                     54:  *    53 bits   PI = 3.243F6A8885A30  =  2 * 1.921FB54442D18   error=.276ulps
                     55:  *    56 bits   PI = 3.243F6A8885A308 =  4 * .C90FDAA22168C2    error=.206ulps
                     56:  *     
                     57:  *     In a test run with more than 200,000 random arguments on a VAX, the 
                     58:  *     maximum observed error in ulps (units in the last place) was
                     59:  *     2.06 ulps.      (comparing against (PI/pi)*(exact asin(x)));
                     60:  *
                     61:  * 2)  If atan2() uses true pi, then
                     62:  *
                     63:  *     asin(x) returns the exact asin(x) with error below about 2 ulps.
                     64:  *
                     65:  *     In a test run with more than 1,024,000 random arguments on a VAX, the 
                     66:  *     maximum observed error in ulps (units in the last place) was
                     67:  *      1.99 ulps.
                     68:  */
                     69: 
                     70: double asin(x)
                     71: double x;
                     72: {
                     73:        double s,t,copysign(),atan2(),sqrt(),one=1.0;
                     74: #ifndef VAX
                     75:        if(x!=x) return(x);     /* x is NaN */
                     76: #endif
                     77:        s=copysign(x,one);
                     78:        if(s <= 0.5)
                     79:            return(atan2(x,sqrt(one-x*x)));
                     80:        else 
                     81:            { t=one-s; s=t+t; return(atan2(x,sqrt(s-t*t))); }
                     82: 
                     83: }
                     84: 
                     85: /* ACOS(X)
                     86:  * RETURNS ARC COS OF X
                     87:  * DOUBLE PRECISION (IEEE DOUBLE 53 bits, VAX D FORMAT 56 bits)
                     88:  * CODED IN C BY K.C. NG, 4/16/85, REVISED ON 6/10/85.
                     89:  *
                     90:  * Required system supported functions:
                     91:  *     copysign(x,y)
                     92:  *     sqrt(x)
                     93:  *
                     94:  * Required kernel function:
                     95:  *     atan2(y,x) 
                     96:  *
                     97:  * Method :                  
                     98:  *                           ________
                     99:  *                           / 1 - x
                    100:  *     acos(x) = 2*atan2(  / -------- , 1 ) .
                    101:  *                        \/   1 + x
                    102:  *
                    103:  * Special cases:
                    104:  *     if x is NaN, return x itself;
                    105:  *     if |x|>1, return NaN.
                    106:  *
                    107:  * Accuracy:
                    108:  * 1)  If atan2() uses machine PI, then
                    109:  * 
                    110:  *     acos(x) returns (PI/pi) * (the exact arc cosine of x) nearly rounded;
                    111:  *     and PI is the exact pi rounded to machine precision (see atan2 for
                    112:  *      details):
                    113:  *
                    114:  *     in decimal:
                    115:  *             pi = 3.141592653589793 23846264338327 ..... 
                    116:  *    53 bits   PI = 3.141592653589793 115997963 ..... ,
                    117:  *    56 bits   PI = 3.141592653589793 227020265 ..... ,  
                    118:  *
                    119:  *     in hexadecimal:
                    120:  *             pi = 3.243F6A8885A308D313198A2E....
                    121:  *    53 bits   PI = 3.243F6A8885A30  =  2 * 1.921FB54442D18   error=.276ulps
                    122:  *    56 bits   PI = 3.243F6A8885A308 =  4 * .C90FDAA22168C2    error=.206ulps
                    123:  *     
                    124:  *     In a test run with more than 200,000 random arguments on a VAX, the 
                    125:  *     maximum observed error in ulps (units in the last place) was
                    126:  *     2.07 ulps.      (comparing against (PI/pi)*(exact acos(x)));
                    127:  *
                    128:  * 2)  If atan2() uses true pi, then
                    129:  *
                    130:  *     acos(x) returns the exact acos(x) with error below about 2 ulps.
                    131:  *
                    132:  *     In a test run with more than 1,024,000 random arguments on a VAX, the 
                    133:  *     maximum observed error in ulps (units in the last place) was
                    134:  *     2.15 ulps.
                    135:  */
                    136: 
                    137: double acos(x)
                    138: double x;
                    139: {
                    140:        double t,copysign(),atan2(),sqrt(),one=1.0;
                    141: #ifndef VAX
                    142:        if(x!=x) return(x);
                    143: #endif
                    144:        if( x != -1.0)
                    145:            t=atan2(sqrt((one-x)/(one+x)),one);
                    146:        else
                    147:            t=atan2(one,0.0);   /* t = PI/2 */
                    148:        return(t+t);
                    149: }

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