/* Hypotenuse of a right-angled triangle. Copyright (C) 2012-2014 Free Software Foundation, Inc. This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. This program 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 General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program. If not, see . */ /* Written by Bruno Haible , 2012. */ #include /* Specification. */ #include double hypot (double x, double y) { if (isfinite (x) && isfinite (y)) { /* Determine absolute values. */ x = fabs (x); y = fabs (y); { /* Find the bigger and the smaller one. */ double a; double b; if (x >= y) { a = x; b = y; } else { a = y; b = x; } /* Now 0 <= b <= a. */ { int e; double an; double bn; /* Write a = an * 2^e, b = bn * 2^e with 0 <= bn <= an < 1. */ an = frexp (a, &e); bn = ldexp (b, - e); { double cn; /* Through the normalization, no unneeded overflow or underflow will occur here. */ cn = sqrt (an * an + bn * bn); return ldexp (cn, e); } } } } else { if (isinf (x) || isinf (y)) /* x or y is infinite. Return +Infinity. */ return HUGE_VAL; else /* x or y is NaN. Return NaN. */ return x + y; } }