/* mpz_root(root, u, nth) -- Set ROOT to floor(U^(1/nth)). Return an indication if the result is exact. Copyright 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002 Free Software Foundation, Inc. This file is part of the GNU MP Library. The GNU MP 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 2.1 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. The GNU MP 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. You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public License along with the GNU MP Library; see the file COPYING.LIB. If not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA. */ /* Naive implementation of nth root extraction. It would probably be a better idea to use a division-free Newton iteration. It is insane to use full precision from iteration 1. The mpz_scan1 trick compensates to some extent. It would be natural to avoid representing the low zero bits mpz_scan1 is counting, and at the same time call mpn directly. */ #include /* for NULL */ #include /* for abort */ #include "gmp.h" #include "gmp-impl.h" #include "longlong.h" int mpz_root (mpz_ptr r, mpz_srcptr u, unsigned long int nth) { mp_ptr rootp, up; mp_size_t us, un, rootn; int exact; unsigned int cnt; unsigned long int rootnb, unb; up = PTR(u); us = SIZ(u); /* even roots of negatives provoke an exception */ if (us < 0 && (nth & 1) == 0) SQRT_OF_NEGATIVE; /* root extraction interpreted as c^(1/nth) means a zeroth root should provoke a divide by zero, do this even if c==0 */ if (nth == 0) DIVIDE_BY_ZERO; if (us == 0) { if (r != NULL) SIZ(r) = 0; return 1; /* exact result */ } un = ABS (us); count_leading_zeros (cnt, up[un - 1]); unb = un * GMP_NUMB_BITS - cnt + GMP_NAIL_BITS; rootnb = (unb + nth - 1) / nth; rootn = (rootnb + GMP_NUMB_BITS - 1) / GMP_NUMB_BITS; if (r != NULL) { rootp = MPZ_REALLOC (r, rootn + 1); up = PTR(u); } else { rootp = __GMP_ALLOCATE_FUNC_LIMBS (rootn + 1); } if (nth == 1) { MPN_COPY (rootp, up, un); exact = 1; } else { exact = 0 == mpn_rootrem (rootp, NULL, up, un, nth); } if (r != NULL) SIZ(r) = us >= 0 ? rootn : -rootn; else __GMP_FREE_FUNC_LIMBS (rootp, rootn + 1); return exact; }