This manual documents cln, a Class Library for Numbers.
Published by Bruno Haible, <haible@clisp.cons.org>
and
Richard B. Kreckel, <kreckel@ginac.de>
.
Copyright (C) Bruno Haible 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008. Copyright (C) Richard B. Kreckel 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011. Copyright (C) Alexei Sheplyakov 2008, 2010.
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--- The Detailed Node Listing ---
Installation
Prerequisites
Building the library
Ordinary number types
Functions on numbers
Constructing numbers
Transcendental functions
Functions on integers
Conversion functions
Input/Output
Modular integers
Symbolic data types
Univariate polynomials
Internals
Using the library
Customizing
CLN is a library for computations with all kinds of numbers. It has a rich set of number classes:
The subtypes of the complex numbers among these are exactly the
types of numbers known to the Common Lisp language. Therefore
CLN
can be used for Common Lisp implementations, giving
‘CLN’ another meaning: it becomes an abbreviation of
“Common Lisp Numbers”.
The CLN package implements
+
, -
, *
, /
, sqrt
,
comparisons, ...),
and
, or
, not
, ...),
CLN is a C++ library. Using C++ as an implementation language provides
+
, -
, *
, =
,
==
, ... operators as in C or C++.
CLN is memory efficient:
CLN is speed efficient:
i386
, m68k
, sparc
, mips
, arm
).
CLN aims at being easily integrated into larger software packages:
cln
in
order to avoid name clashes.
This section describes how to install the CLN package on your system.
To build CLN, you need a C++ compiler.
GNU g++ 4.0.0
or newer is recommended.
The following C++ features are used: classes, member functions, overloading of functions and operators, constructors and destructors, inline, const, multiple inheritance, templates and namespaces.
The following C++ features are not used:
new
, delete
, virtual inheritance.
CLN relies on semi-automatic ordering of initializations of static and global variables, a feature which I could implement for GNU g++ only. Also, it is not known whether this semi-automatic ordering works on all platforms when a non-GNU assembler is being used.
To build CLN, you also need to have GNU make
installed.
To build CLN on HP-UX, you also need to have GNU sed
installed.
This is because the libtool script, which creates the CLN library, relies
on sed
, and the vendor's sed
utility on these systems is too
limited.
As with any autoconfiguring GNU software, installation is as easy as this:
$ ./configure $ make $ make check
If on your system, ‘make’ is not GNU make
, you have to use
‘gmake’ instead of ‘make’ above.
The configure
command checks out some features of your system and
C++ compiler and builds the Makefile
s. The make
command
builds the library. This step may take about half an hour on an average
workstation. The make check
runs some test to check that no
important subroutine has been miscompiled.
The configure
command accepts options. To get a summary of them, try
$ ./configure --help
Some of the options are explained in detail in the ‘INSTALL.generic’ file.
You can specify the C compiler, the C++ compiler and their options through
the following environment variables when running configure
:
CC
CFLAGS
CXX
CXXFLAGS
CPPFLAGS
LDFLAGS
Examples:
$ CC="gcc" CFLAGS="-O" CXX="g++" CXXFLAGS="-O" ./configure
$ CC="gcc -V 3.2.3" CFLAGS="-O2 -finline-limit=1000" \ CXX="g++ -V 3.2.3" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -finline-limit=1000" \ CPPFLAGS="-DNO_ASM" ./configure
$ CC="gcc-4.2" CFLAGS="-O2" CXX="g++-4.2" CXXFLAGS="-O2" ./configure
Note that for these environment variables to take effect, you have to set
them (assuming a Bourne-compatible shell) on the same line as the
configure
command. If you made the settings in earlier shell
commands, you have to export
the environment variables before
calling configure
. In a csh
shell, you have to use the
‘setenv’ command for setting each of the environment variables.
Currently CLN works only with the GNU g++
compiler, and only in
optimizing mode. So you should specify at least -O
in the
CXXFLAGS, or no CXXFLAGS at all. If CXXFLAGS is not set, CLN will be
compiled with -O
.
The assembler language kernel can be turned off by specifying
-DNO_ASM
in the CPPFLAGS. If make check
reports any
problems, you may try to clean up (see Cleaning up) and configure
and compile again, this time with -DNO_ASM
.
If you use g++
3.2.x or earlier, I recommend adding
‘-finline-limit=1000’ to the CXXFLAGS. This is essential for good
code.
If you use g++
from gcc-3.0.4 or older on Sparc, add either
‘-O’, ‘-O1’ or ‘-O2 -fno-schedule-insns’ to the
CXXFLAGS. With full ‘-O2’, g++
miscompiles the division
routines. Also, do not use gcc-3.0 on Sparc for compiling CLN, it
won't work at all.
Also, please do not compile CLN with g++
using the -O3
optimization level. This leads to inferior code quality.
Some newer versions of g++
require quite an amount of memory.
You might need some swap space if your machine doesn't have 512 MB of
RAM.
By default, both a shared and a static library are built. You can build
CLN as a static (or shared) library only, by calling configure
with the option ‘--disable-shared’ (or ‘--disable-static’).
While shared libraries are usually more convenient to use, they may not
work on all architectures. Try disabling them if you run into linker
problems. Also, they are generally slightly slower than static
libraries so runtime-critical applications should be linked statically.
CLN may be configured to make use of a preinstalled gmp
library
for some low-level routines. Please make sure that you have at least
gmp
version 3.0 installed since earlier versions are unsupported
and likely not to work. Using gmp
is known to be quite a boost
for CLN's performance.
By default, CLN will autodetect gmp
and use it. If you do not
want CLN to make use of a preinstalled gmp
library, then you can
explicitly specify so by calling configure
with the option
‘--without-gmp’.
If you have installed the gmp
library and its header files in
some place where the compiler cannot find it by default, you must help
configure
and specify the prefix that was used when gmp
was configured. Here is an example:
$ ./configure --with-gmp=/opt/gmp-4.2.2
This assumes that the gmp
header files have been installed in
/opt/gmp-4.2.2/include/ and the library in
/opt/gmp-4.2.2/lib/. More uncommon GMP installations can be
handled by setting CPPFLAGS and LDFLAGS appropriately prior to running
configure
.
As with any autoconfiguring GNU software, installation is as easy as this:
$ make install
The ‘make install’ command installs the library and the include files
into public places (/usr/local/lib/ and /usr/local/include/,
if you haven't specified a --prefix
option to configure
).
This step may require superuser privileges.
If you have already built the library and wish to install it, but didn't
specify --prefix=...
at configure time, just re-run
configure
, giving it the same options as the first time, plus
the --prefix=...
option.
You can remove system-dependent files generated by make
through
$ make clean
You can remove all files generated by make
, thus reverting to a
virgin distribution of CLN, through
$ make distclean
CLN implements the following class hierarchy:
Number cl_number <cln/number.h> | | Real or complex number cl_N <cln/complex.h> | | Real number cl_R <cln/real.h> | +-------------------+-------------------+ | | Rational number Floating-point number cl_RA cl_F <cln/rational.h> <cln/float.h> | | | +--------------+--------------+--------------+ Integer | | | | cl_I Short-Float Single-Float Double-Float Long-Float <cln/integer.h> cl_SF cl_FF cl_DF cl_LF <cln/sfloat.h> <cln/ffloat.h> <cln/dfloat.h> <cln/lfloat.h>
The base class cl_number
is an abstract base class.
It is not useful to declare a variable of this type except if you want
to completely disable compile-time type checking and use run-time type
checking instead.
The class cl_N
comprises real and complex numbers. There is
no special class for complex numbers since complex numbers with imaginary
part 0
are automatically converted to real numbers.
The class cl_R
comprises real numbers of different kinds. It is an
abstract class.
The class cl_RA
comprises exact real numbers: rational numbers, including
integers. There is no special class for non-integral rational numbers
since rational numbers with denominator 1
are automatically converted
to integers.
The class cl_F
implements floating-point approximations to real numbers.
It is an abstract class.
Some numbers are represented as exact numbers: there is no loss of information
when such a number is converted from its mathematical value to its internal
representation. On exact numbers, the elementary operations (+
,
-
, *
, /
, comparisons, ...) compute the completely
correct result.
In CLN, the exact numbers are:
Rational numbers are always normalized to the form
numerator/
denominator where the numerator and denominator
are coprime integers and the denominator is positive. If the resulting
denominator is 1
, the rational number is converted to an integer.
Small integers (typically in the range -2^29
...2^29-1
,
for 32-bit machines) are especially efficient, because they consume no heap
allocation. Otherwise the distinction between these immediate integers
(called “fixnums”) and heap allocated integers (called “bignums”)
is completely transparent.
Not all real numbers can be represented exactly. (There is an easy mathematical proof for this: Only a countable set of numbers can be stored exactly in a computer, even if one assumes that it has unlimited storage. But there are uncountably many real numbers.) So some approximation is needed. CLN implements ordinary floating-point numbers, with mantissa and exponent.
The elementary operations (+
, -
, *
, /
, ...)
only return approximate results. For example, the value of the expression
(cl_F) 0.3 + (cl_F) 0.4
prints as ‘0.70000005’, not as
‘0.7’. Rounding errors like this one are inevitable when computing
with floating-point numbers.
Nevertheless, CLN rounds the floating-point results of the operations +
,
-
, *
, /
, sqrt
according to the “round-to-even”
rule: It first computes the exact mathematical result and then returns the
floating-point number which is nearest to this. If two floating-point numbers
are equally distant from the ideal result, the one with a 0
in its least
significant mantissa bit is chosen.
Similarly, testing floating point numbers for equality ‘x == y’
is gambling with random errors. Better check for ‘abs(x - y) < epsilon’
for some well-chosen epsilon
.
Floating point numbers come in four flavors:
cl_SF
.
They have 1 sign bit, 8 exponent bits (including the exponent's sign),
and 17 mantissa bits (including the “hidden” bit).
They don't consume heap allocation.
cl_FF
.
They have 1 sign bit, 8 exponent bits (including the exponent's sign),
and 24 mantissa bits (including the “hidden” bit).
In CLN, they are represented as IEEE single-precision floating point numbers.
This corresponds closely to the C/C++ type ‘float’.
cl_DF
.
They have 1 sign bit, 11 exponent bits (including the exponent's sign),
and 53 mantissa bits (including the “hidden” bit).
In CLN, they are represented as IEEE double-precision floating point numbers.
This corresponds closely to the C/C++ type ‘double’.
cl_LF
.
They have 1 sign bit, 32 exponent bits (including the exponent's sign),
and n mantissa bits (including the “hidden” bit), where n >= 64.
The precision of a long float is unlimited, but once created, a long float
has a fixed precision. (No “lazy recomputation”.)
Of course, computations with long floats are more expensive than those with smaller floating-point formats.
CLN does not implement features like NaNs, denormalized numbers and gradual underflow. If the exponent range of some floating-point type is too limited for your application, choose another floating-point type with larger exponent range.
As a user of CLN, you can forget about the differences between the
four floating-point types and just declare all your floating-point
variables as being of type cl_F
. This has the advantage that
when you change the precision of some computation (say, from cl_DF
to cl_LF
), you don't have to change the code, only the precision
of the initial values. Also, many transcendental functions have been
declared as returning a cl_F
when the argument is a cl_F
,
but such declarations are missing for the types cl_SF
, cl_FF
,
cl_DF
, cl_LF
. (Such declarations would be wrong if
the floating point contagion rule happened to change in the future.)
Complex numbers, as implemented by the class cl_N
, have a real
part and an imaginary part, both real numbers. A complex number whose
imaginary part is the exact number 0
is automatically converted
to a real number.
Complex numbers can arise from real numbers alone, for example
through application of sqrt
or transcendental functions.
Conversions from any class to any its superclasses (“base classes” in C++ terminology) is done automatically.
Conversions from the C built-in types ‘long’ and ‘unsigned long’
are provided for the classes cl_I
, cl_RA
, cl_R
,
cl_N
and cl_number
.
Conversions from the C built-in types ‘int’ and ‘unsigned int’
are provided for the classes cl_I
, cl_RA
, cl_R
,
cl_N
and cl_number
. However, these conversions emphasize
efficiency. On 32-bit systems, their range is therefore limited:
In a declaration like ‘cl_I x = 10;’ the C++ compiler is able to
do the conversion of 10
from ‘int’ to ‘cl_I’ at compile time
already. On the other hand, code like ‘cl_I x = 1000000000;’ is
in error on 32-bit machines.
So, if you want to be sure that an ‘int’ whose magnitude is not guaranteed
to be < 2^29 is correctly converted to a ‘cl_I’, first convert it to a
‘long’. Similarly, if a large ‘unsigned int’ is to be converted to a
‘cl_I’, first convert it to an ‘unsigned long’. On 64-bit machines
there is no such restriction. There, conversions from arbitrary 32-bit ‘int’
values always works correctly.
Conversions from the C built-in type ‘float’ are provided for the classes
cl_FF
, cl_F
, cl_R
, cl_N
and cl_number
.
Conversions from the C built-in type ‘double’ are provided for the classes
cl_DF
, cl_F
, cl_R
, cl_N
and cl_number
.
Conversions from ‘const char *’ are provided for the classes
cl_I
, cl_RA
,
cl_SF
, cl_FF
, cl_DF
, cl_LF
, cl_F
,
cl_R
, cl_N
.
The easiest way to specify a value which is outside of the range of the
C++ built-in types is therefore to specify it as a string, like this:
cl_I order_of_rubiks_cube_group = "43252003274489856000";
Note that this conversion is done at runtime, not at compile-time.
Conversions from cl_I
to the C built-in types ‘int’,
‘unsigned int’, ‘long’, ‘unsigned long’ are provided through
the functions
int cl_I_to_int (const cl_I& x)
unsigned int cl_I_to_uint (const cl_I& x)
long cl_I_to_long (const cl_I& x)
unsigned long cl_I_to_ulong (const cl_I& x)
x
as element of the C type ctype. If x
is not
representable in the range of ctype, a runtime error occurs.
Conversions from the classes cl_I
, cl_RA
,
cl_SF
, cl_FF
, cl_DF
, cl_LF
, cl_F
and
cl_R
to the C built-in types ‘float’ and ‘double’ are provided through
the functions
float float_approx (const
type& x)
double double_approx (const
type& x)
x
of C type ctype.
If abs(x)
is too close to 0 (underflow), 0 is returned.
If abs(x)
is too large (overflow), an IEEE infinity is returned.
Conversions from any class to any of its subclasses (“derived classes” in
C++ terminology) are not provided. Instead, you can assert and check
that a value belongs to a certain subclass, and return it as element of that
class, using the ‘As’ and ‘The’ macros.
As(
type)(
value)
checks that value belongs to
type and returns it as such.
The(
type)(
value)
assumes that value belongs to
type and returns it as such. It is your responsibility to ensure
that this assumption is valid. Since macros and namespaces don't go
together well, there is an equivalent to ‘The’: the template
‘the’.
Example:
cl_I x = ...; if (!(x >= 0)) abort(); cl_I ten_x_a = The(cl_I)(expt(10,x)); // If x >= 0, 10^x is an integer. // In general, it would be a rational number. cl_I ten_x_b = the<cl_I>(expt(10,x)); // The same as above.
Each of the number classes declares its mathematical operations in the
corresponding include file. For example, if your code operates with
objects of type cl_I
, it should #include <cln/integer.h>
.
Here is how to create number objects “from nothing”.
cl_I
objects are most easily constructed from C integers and from
strings. See Conversions.
cl_RA
objects can be constructed from strings. The syntax
for rational numbers is described in Internal and printed representation.
Another standard way to produce a rational number is through application
of ‘operator /’ or ‘recip’ on integers.
cl_F
objects with low precision are most easily constructed from
C ‘float’ and ‘double’. See Conversions.
To construct a cl_F
with high precision, you can use the conversion
from ‘const char *’, but you have to specify the desired precision
within the string. (See Internal and printed representation.)
Example:
cl_F e = "0.271828182845904523536028747135266249775724709369996e+1_40";
will set ‘e’ to the given value, with a precision of 40 decimal digits.
The programmatic way to construct a cl_F
with high precision is
through the cl_float
conversion function, see
Conversion to floating-point numbers. For example, to compute
e
to 40 decimal places, first construct 1.0 to 40 decimal places
and then apply the exponential function:
float_format_t precision = float_format(40); cl_F e = exp(cl_float(1,precision));
Non-real cl_N
objects are normally constructed through the function
cl_N complex (const cl_R& realpart, const cl_R& imagpart)
See Elementary complex functions.
Each of the classes cl_N
, cl_R
, cl_RA
, cl_I
,
cl_F
, cl_SF
, cl_FF
, cl_DF
, cl_LF
defines the following operations:
operator + (const
type&, const
type&)
operator - (const
type&, const
type&)
operator - (const
type&)
plus1 (const
type& x)
x + 1
.
minus1 (const
type& x)
x - 1
.
operator * (const
type&, const
type&)
square (const
type& x)
x * x
.
Each of the classes cl_N
, cl_R
, cl_RA
,
cl_F
, cl_SF
, cl_FF
, cl_DF
, cl_LF
defines the following operations:
operator / (const
type&, const
type&)
recip (const
type&)
The class cl_I
doesn't define a ‘/’ operation because
in the C/C++ language this operator, applied to integral types,
denotes the ‘floor’ or ‘truncate’ operation (which one of these,
is implementation dependent). (See Rounding functions.)
Instead, cl_I
defines an “exact quotient” function:
cl_I exquo (const cl_I& x, const cl_I& y)
y
divides x
, and returns the quotient x
/y
.
The following exponentiation functions are defined:
cl_I expt_pos (const cl_I& x, const cl_I& y)
cl_RA expt_pos (const cl_RA& x, const cl_I& y)
y
must be > 0. Returns x^y
.
cl_RA expt (const cl_RA& x, const cl_I& y)
cl_R expt (const cl_R& x, const cl_I& y)
cl_N expt (const cl_N& x, const cl_I& y)
x^y
.
Each of the classes cl_R
, cl_RA
, cl_I
,
cl_F
, cl_SF
, cl_FF
, cl_DF
, cl_LF
defines the following operation:
abs (const
type& x)
x
.
This is x
if x >= 0
, and -x
if x <= 0
.
The class cl_N
implements this as follows:
cl_R abs (const cl_N x)
x
.
Each of the classes cl_N
, cl_R
, cl_RA
, cl_I
,
cl_F
, cl_SF
, cl_FF
, cl_DF
, cl_LF
defines the following operation:
signum (const
type& x)
x
, in the same number format as x
.
This is defined as x / abs(x)
if x
is non-zero, and
x
if x
is zero. If x
is real, the value is either
0 or 1 or -1.
Each of the classes cl_RA
, cl_I
defines the following operations:
cl_I numerator (const
type& x)
x
.
cl_I denominator (const
type& x)
x
.
The numerator and denominator of a rational number are normalized in such a way that they have no factor in common and the denominator is positive.
The class cl_N
defines the following operation:
cl_N complex (const cl_R& a, const cl_R& b)
a+bi
, that is, the complex number with
real part a
and imaginary part b
.
Each of the classes cl_N
, cl_R
defines the following operations:
cl_R realpart (const
type& x)
x
.
cl_R imagpart (const
type& x)
x
.
conjugate (const
type& x)
x
.
We have the relations
x = complex(realpart(x), imagpart(x))
conjugate(x) = complex(realpart(x), -imagpart(x))
Each of the classes cl_N
, cl_R
, cl_RA
, cl_I
,
cl_F
, cl_SF
, cl_FF
, cl_DF
, cl_LF
defines the following operations:
bool operator == (const
type&, const
type&)
bool operator != (const
type&, const
type&)
uint32 equal_hashcode (const
type&)
==
. This hash code depends on the number's value,
not its type or precision.
bool zerop (const
type& x)
x == 0
Each of the classes cl_R
, cl_RA
, cl_I
,
cl_F
, cl_SF
, cl_FF
, cl_DF
, cl_LF
defines the following operations:
cl_signean compare (const
type& x, const
type& y)
x
and y
. Returns +1 if x
>y
,
-1 if x
<y
, 0 if x
=y
.
bool operator <= (const
type&, const
type&)
bool operator < (const
type&, const
type&)
bool operator >= (const
type&, const
type&)
bool operator > (const
type&, const
type&)
bool minusp (const
type& x)
x < 0
bool plusp (const
type& x)
x > 0
max (const
type& x, const
type& y)
x
and y
.
min (const
type& x, const
type& y)
x
and y
.
When a floating point number and a rational number are compared, the float
is first converted to a rational number using the function rational
.
Since a floating point number actually represents an interval of real numbers,
the result might be surprising.
For example, (cl_F)(cl_R)"1/3" == (cl_R)"1/3"
returns false because
there is no floating point number whose value is exactly 1/3
.
When a real number is to be converted to an integer, there is no “best” rounding. The desired rounding function depends on the application. The Common Lisp and ISO Lisp standards offer four rounding functions:
floor(x)
x
.
ceiling(x)
x
.
truncate(x)
x
(inclusive) the one nearest to x
.
round(x)
x
. If x
is exactly halfway between two
integers, choose the even one.
These functions have different advantages:
floor
and ceiling
are translation invariant:
floor(x+n) = floor(x) + n
and ceiling(x+n) = ceiling(x) + n
for every x
and every integer n
.
On the other hand, truncate
and round
are symmetric:
truncate(-x) = -truncate(x)
and round(-x) = -round(x)
,
and furthermore round
is unbiased: on the “average”, it rounds
down exactly as often as it rounds up.
The functions are related like this:
ceiling(m/n) = floor((m+n-1)/n) = floor((m-1)/n)+1
for rational numbers m/n
(m
, n
integers, n
>0), and
truncate(x) = sign(x) * floor(abs(x))
Each of the classes cl_R
, cl_RA
,
cl_F
, cl_SF
, cl_FF
, cl_DF
, cl_LF
defines the following operations:
cl_I floor1 (const
type& x)
floor(x)
.
cl_I ceiling1 (const
type& x)
ceiling(x)
.
cl_I truncate1 (const
type& x)
truncate(x)
.
cl_I round1 (const
type& x)
round(x)
.
Each of the classes cl_R
, cl_RA
, cl_I
,
cl_F
, cl_SF
, cl_FF
, cl_DF
, cl_LF
defines the following operations:
cl_I floor1 (const
type& x, const
type& y)
floor(x/y)
.
cl_I ceiling1 (const
type& x, const
type& y)
ceiling(x/y)
.
cl_I truncate1 (const
type& x, const
type& y)
truncate(x/y)
.
cl_I round1 (const
type& x, const
type& y)
round(x/y)
.
These functions are called ‘floor1’, ... here instead of ‘floor’, ..., because on some systems, system dependent include files define ‘floor’ and ‘ceiling’ as macros.
In many cases, one needs both the quotient and the remainder of a division. It is more efficient to compute both at the same time than to perform two divisions, one for quotient and the next one for the remainder. The following functions therefore return a structure containing both the quotient and the remainder. The suffix ‘2’ indicates the number of “return values”. The remainder is defined as follows:
quotient = floor(x)
,
remainder = x - quotient
,
quotient = floor(x,y)
,
remainder = x - quotient*y
,
and similarly for the other three operations.
Each of the classes cl_R
, cl_RA
,
cl_F
, cl_SF
, cl_FF
, cl_DF
, cl_LF
defines the following operations:
struct
type_div_t { cl_I quotient;
type remainder; };
_div_t floor2 (const
type& x)
_div_t ceiling2 (const
type& x)
_div_t truncate2 (const
type& x)
_div_t round2 (const
type& x)
Each of the classes cl_R
, cl_RA
, cl_I
,
cl_F
, cl_SF
, cl_FF
, cl_DF
, cl_LF
defines the following operations:
struct
type_div_t { cl_I quotient;
type remainder; };
_div_t floor2 (const
type& x, const
type& y)
_div_t ceiling2 (const
type& x, const
type& y)
_div_t truncate2 (const
type& x, const
type& y)
_div_t round2 (const
type& x, const
type& y)
Sometimes, one wants the quotient as a floating-point number (of the same format as the argument, if the argument is a float) instead of as an integer. The prefix ‘f’ indicates this.
Each of the classes
cl_F
, cl_SF
, cl_FF
, cl_DF
, cl_LF
defines the following operations:
ffloor (const
type& x)
fceiling (const
type& x)
ftruncate (const
type& x)
fround (const
type& x)
and similarly for class cl_R
, but with return type cl_F
.
The class cl_R
defines the following operations:
cl_F ffloor (const
type& x, const
type& y)
cl_F fceiling (const
type& x, const
type& y)
cl_F ftruncate (const
type& x, const
type& y)
cl_F fround (const
type& x, const
type& y)
These functions also exist in versions which return both the quotient and the remainder. The suffix ‘2’ indicates this.
Each of the classes
cl_F
, cl_SF
, cl_FF
, cl_DF
, cl_LF
defines the following operations:
struct
type_fdiv_t {
type quotient;
type remainder; };
_fdiv_t ffloor2 (const
type& x)
_fdiv_t fceiling2 (const
type& x)
_fdiv_t ftruncate2 (const
type& x)
_fdiv_t fround2 (const
type& x)
cl_R
, but with quotient type cl_F
.
The class cl_R
defines the following operations:
struct
type_fdiv_t { cl_F quotient; cl_R remainder; };
_fdiv_t ffloor2 (const
type& x, const
type& y)
_fdiv_t fceiling2 (const
type& x, const
type& y)
_fdiv_t ftruncate2 (const
type& x, const
type& y)
_fdiv_t fround2 (const
type& x, const
type& y)
Other applications need only the remainder of a division. The remainder of ‘floor’ and ‘ffloor’ is called ‘mod’ (abbreviation of “modulo”). The remainder ‘truncate’ and ‘ftruncate’ is called ‘rem’ (abbreviation of “remainder”).
mod(x,y) = floor2(x,y).remainder = x - floor(x/y)*y
rem(x,y) = truncate2(x,y).remainder = x - truncate(x/y)*y
If x
and y
are both >= 0, mod(x,y) = rem(x,y) >= 0
.
In general, mod(x,y)
has the sign of y
or is zero,
and rem(x,y)
has the sign of x
or is zero.
The classes cl_R
, cl_I
define the following operations:
mod (const
type& x, const
type& y)
rem (const
type& x, const
type& y)
Each of the classes cl_R
,
cl_F
, cl_SF
, cl_FF
, cl_DF
, cl_LF
defines the following operation:
sqrt (const
type& x)
x
must be >= 0. This function returns the square root of x
,
normalized to be >= 0. If x
is the square of a rational number,
sqrt(x)
will be a rational number, else it will return a
floating-point approximation.
The classes cl_RA
, cl_I
define the following operation:
bool sqrtp (const
type& x,
type* root)
x
is a perfect square. If so, it returns true
and the exact square root in *root
, else it returns false.
Furthermore, for integers, similarly:
bool isqrt (const
type& x,
type* root)
x
should be >= 0. This function sets *root
to
floor(sqrt(x))
and returns the same value as sqrtp
:
the boolean value (expt(*root,2) == x)
.
For n
th roots, the classes cl_RA
, cl_I
define the following operation:
bool rootp (const
type& x, const cl_I& n,
type* root)
x
must be >= 0. n
must be > 0.
This tests whether x
is an n
th power of a rational number.
If so, it returns true and the exact root in *root
, else it returns
false.
The only square root function which accepts negative numbers is the one
for class cl_N
:
cl_N sqrt (const cl_N& z)
z
, as defined by the formula
sqrt(z) = exp(log(z)/2)
. Conversion to a floating-point type
or to a complex number are done if necessary. The range of the result is the
right half plane realpart(sqrt(z)) >= 0
including the positive imaginary axis and 0, but excluding
the negative imaginary axis.
The result is an exact number only if z
is an exact number.
The transcendental functions return an exact result if the argument
is exact and the result is exact as well. Otherwise they must return
inexact numbers even if the argument is exact.
For example, cos(0) = 1
returns the rational number 1
.
cl_R exp (const cl_R& x)
cl_N exp (const cl_N& x)
x
. This is e^x
where
e
is the base of the natural logarithms. The range of the result
is the entire complex plane excluding 0.
cl_R ln (const cl_R& x)
x
must be > 0. Returns the (natural) logarithm of x.
cl_N log (const cl_N& x)
x
is real and positive,
this is ln(x)
. In general, log(x) = log(abs(x)) + i*phase(x)
.
The range of the result is the strip in the complex plane
-pi < imagpart(log(x)) <= pi
.
cl_R phase (const cl_N& x)
x
in its polar representation as a
complex number. That is, phase(x) = atan(realpart(x),imagpart(x))
.
This is also the imaginary part of log(x)
.
The range of the result is the interval -pi < phase(x) <= pi
.
The result will be an exact number only if zerop(x)
or
if x
is real and positive.
cl_R log (const cl_R& a, const cl_R& b)
a
and b
must be > 0. Returns the logarithm of a
with
respect to base b
. log(a,b) = ln(a)/ln(b)
.
The result can be exact only if a = 1
or if a
and b
are both rational.
cl_N log (const cl_N& a, const cl_N& b)
a
with respect to base b
.
log(a,b) = log(a)/log(b)
.
cl_N expt (const cl_N& x, const cl_N& y)
x^y = exp(y*log(x))
.
The constant e = exp(1) = 2.71828... is returned by the following functions:
cl_F exp1 (float_format_t f)
f
.
cl_F exp1 (const cl_F& y)
y
.
cl_F exp1 (void)
default_float_format
.
cl_R sin (const cl_R& x)
sin(x)
. The range of the result is the interval
-1 <= sin(x) <= 1
.
cl_N sin (const cl_N& z)
sin(z)
. The range of the result is the entire complex plane.
cl_R cos (const cl_R& x)
cos(x)
. The range of the result is the interval
-1 <= cos(x) <= 1
.
cl_N cos (const cl_N& x)
cos(z)
. The range of the result is the entire complex plane.
struct cos_sin_t { cl_R cos; cl_R sin; };
cos_sin_t cos_sin (const cl_R& x)
sin(x)
and cos(x)
. This is more efficient than
computing them separately. The relation cos^2 + sin^2 = 1
will
hold only approximately.
cl_R tan (const cl_R& x)
cl_N tan (const cl_N& x)
tan(x) = sin(x)/cos(x)
.
cl_N cis (const cl_R& x)
cl_N cis (const cl_N& x)
exp(i*x)
. The name ‘cis’ means “cos + i sin”, because
e^(i*x) = cos(x) + i*sin(x)
.
cl_N asin (const cl_N& z)
arcsin(z)
. This is defined as
arcsin(z) = log(iz+sqrt(1-z^2))/i
and satisfies
arcsin(-z) = -arcsin(z)
.
The range of the result is the strip in the complex domain
-pi/2 <= realpart(arcsin(z)) <= pi/2
, excluding the numbers
with realpart = -pi/2
and imagpart < 0
and the numbers
with realpart = pi/2
and imagpart > 0
.
cl_N acos (const cl_N& z)
arccos(z)
. This is defined as
arccos(z) = pi/2 - arcsin(z) = log(z+i*sqrt(1-z^2))/i
and satisfies arccos(-z) = pi - arccos(z)
.
The range of the result is the strip in the complex domain
0 <= realpart(arcsin(z)) <= pi
, excluding the numbers
with realpart = 0
and imagpart < 0
and the numbers
with realpart = pi
and imagpart > 0
.
cl_R atan (const cl_R& x, const cl_R& y)
x+iy
. This is atan(y/x)
if x>0
. The range of
the result is the interval -pi < atan(x,y) <= pi
. The result will
be an exact number only if x > 0
and y
is the exact 0
.
WARNING: In Common Lisp, this function is called as (atan y x)
,
with reversed order of arguments.
cl_R atan (const cl_R& x)
arctan(x)
. This is the same as atan(1,x)
. The range
of the result is the interval -pi/2 < atan(x) < pi/2
. The result
will be an exact number only if x
is the exact 0
.
cl_N atan (const cl_N& z)
arctan(z)
. This is defined as
arctan(z) = (log(1+iz)-log(1-iz)) / 2i
and satisfies
arctan(-z) = -arctan(z)
. The range of the result is
the strip in the complex domain
-pi/2 <= realpart(arctan(z)) <= pi/2
, excluding the numbers
with realpart = -pi/2
and imagpart >= 0
and the numbers
with realpart = pi/2
and imagpart <= 0
.
Archimedes' constant pi = 3.14... is returned by the following functions:
cl_F pi (float_format_t f)
f
.
cl_F pi (const cl_F& y)
y
.
cl_F pi (void)
default_float_format
.
cl_R sinh (const cl_R& x)
sinh(x)
.
cl_N sinh (const cl_N& z)
sinh(z)
. The range of the result is the entire complex plane.
cl_R cosh (const cl_R& x)
cosh(x)
. The range of the result is the interval
cosh(x) >= 1
.
cl_N cosh (const cl_N& z)
cosh(z)
. The range of the result is the entire complex plane.
struct cosh_sinh_t { cl_R cosh; cl_R sinh; };
cosh_sinh_t cosh_sinh (const cl_R& x)
sinh(x)
and cosh(x)
. This is more efficient than
computing them separately. The relation cosh^2 - sinh^2 = 1
will
hold only approximately.
cl_R tanh (const cl_R& x)
cl_N tanh (const cl_N& x)
tanh(x) = sinh(x)/cosh(x)
.
cl_N asinh (const cl_N& z)
arsinh(z)
. This is defined as
arsinh(z) = log(z+sqrt(1+z^2))
and satisfies
arsinh(-z) = -arsinh(z)
.
The range of the result is the strip in the complex domain
-pi/2 <= imagpart(arsinh(z)) <= pi/2
, excluding the numbers
with imagpart = -pi/2
and realpart > 0
and the numbers
with imagpart = pi/2
and realpart < 0
.
cl_N acosh (const cl_N& z)
arcosh(z)
. This is defined as
arcosh(z) = 2*log(sqrt((z+1)/2)+sqrt((z-1)/2))
.
The range of the result is the half-strip in the complex domain
-pi < imagpart(arcosh(z)) <= pi, realpart(arcosh(z)) >= 0
,
excluding the numbers with realpart = 0
and -pi < imagpart < 0
.
cl_N atanh (const cl_N& z)
artanh(z)
. This is defined as
artanh(z) = (log(1+z)-log(1-z)) / 2
and satisfies
artanh(-z) = -artanh(z)
. The range of the result is
the strip in the complex domain
-pi/2 <= imagpart(artanh(z)) <= pi/2
, excluding the numbers
with imagpart = -pi/2
and realpart <= 0
and the numbers
with imagpart = pi/2
and realpart >= 0
.
Euler's constant C = 0.577... is returned by the following functions:
cl_F eulerconst (float_format_t f)
f
.
cl_F eulerconst (const cl_F& y)
y
.
cl_F eulerconst (void)
default_float_format
.
Catalan's constant G = 0.915... is returned by the following functions:
cl_F catalanconst (float_format_t f)
f
.
cl_F catalanconst (const cl_F& y)
y
.
cl_F catalanconst (void)
default_float_format
.
Riemann's zeta function at an integral point s>1
is returned by the
following functions:
cl_F zeta (int s, float_format_t f)
s
as a float of format f
.
cl_F zeta (int s, const cl_F& y)
s
in the float format of y
.
cl_F zeta (int s)
s
as a float of format
default_float_format
.
Integers, when viewed as in two's complement notation, can be thought as infinite bit strings where the bits' values eventually are constant. For example,
17 = ......00010001 -6 = ......11111010
The logical operations view integers as such bit strings and operate on each of the bit positions in parallel.
cl_I lognot (const cl_I& x)
cl_I operator ~ (const cl_I& x)
~x
in C. This is the same as -1-x
.
cl_I logand (const cl_I& x, const cl_I& y)
cl_I operator & (const cl_I& x, const cl_I& y)
x & y
in C.
cl_I logior (const cl_I& x, const cl_I& y)
cl_I operator | (const cl_I& x, const cl_I& y)
x | y
in C.
cl_I logxor (const cl_I& x, const cl_I& y)
cl_I operator ^ (const cl_I& x, const cl_I& y)
x ^ y
in C.
cl_I logeqv (const cl_I& x, const cl_I& y)
~(x ^ y)
in C.
cl_I lognand (const cl_I& x, const cl_I& y)
~(x & y)
in C.
cl_I lognor (const cl_I& x, const cl_I& y)
~(x | y)
in C.
cl_I logandc1 (const cl_I& x, const cl_I& y)
~x & y
in C.
cl_I logandc2 (const cl_I& x, const cl_I& y)
x & ~y
in C.
cl_I logorc1 (const cl_I& x, const cl_I& y)
~x | y
in C.
cl_I logorc2 (const cl_I& x, const cl_I& y)
x | ~y
in C.
These operations are all available though the function
cl_I boole (cl_boole op, const cl_I& x, const cl_I& y)
op
must have one of the 16 values (each one stands for a function
which combines two bits into one bit): boole_clr
, boole_set
,
boole_1
, boole_2
, boole_c1
, boole_c2
,
boole_and
, boole_ior
, boole_xor
, boole_eqv
,
boole_nand
, boole_nor
, boole_andc1
, boole_andc2
,
boole_orc1
, boole_orc2
.
Other functions that view integers as bit strings:
bool logtest (const cl_I& x, const cl_I& y)
x
and y
, i.e. if
logand(x,y) != 0
.
bool logbitp (const cl_I& n, const cl_I& x)
n
th bit (from the right) of x
is set.
Bit 0 is the least significant bit.
uintC logcount (const cl_I& x)
x
, if x
>= 0, or
the number of zero bits in x
, if x
< 0.
The following functions operate on intervals of bits in integers. The type
struct cl_byte { uintC size; uintC position; };
represents the bit interval containing the bits
position
...position+size-1
of an integer.
The constructor cl_byte(size,position)
constructs a cl_byte
.
cl_I ldb (const cl_I& n, const cl_byte& b)
n
described by the bit interval b
and returns them as a nonnegative integer with b.size
bits.
bool ldb_test (const cl_I& n, const cl_byte& b)
b
is set in
n
.
cl_I dpb (const cl_I& newbyte, const cl_I& n, const cl_byte& b)
n
, with the bits described by the bit interval b
replaced by newbyte
. Only the lowest b.size
bits of
newbyte
are relevant.
The functions ldb
and dpb
implicitly shift. The following
functions are their counterparts without shifting:
cl_I mask_field (const cl_I& n, const cl_byte& b)
b
copied from the corresponding bits in n
, the other bits zero.
cl_I deposit_field (const cl_I& newbyte, const cl_I& n, const cl_byte& b)
b
come from newbyte
and the other bits come from n
.
The following relations hold:
ldb (n, b) = mask_field(n, b) >> b.position
,
dpb (newbyte, n, b) = deposit_field (newbyte << b.position, n, b)
,
deposit_field(newbyte,n,b) = n ^ mask_field(n,b) ^ mask_field(new_byte,b)
.
The following operations on integers as bit strings are efficient shortcuts for common arithmetic operations:
bool oddp (const cl_I& x)
x
is 1. Equivalent to
mod(x,2) != 0
.
bool evenp (const cl_I& x)
x
is 0. Equivalent to
mod(x,2) == 0
.
cl_I operator << (const cl_I& x, const cl_I& n)
x
by n
bits to the left. n
should be >=0.
Equivalent to x * expt(2,n)
.
cl_I operator >> (const cl_I& x, const cl_I& n)
x
by n
bits to the right. n
should be >=0.
Bits shifted out to the right are thrown away.
Equivalent to floor(x / expt(2,n))
.
cl_I ash (const cl_I& x, const cl_I& y)
x
by y
bits to the left (if y
>=0) or
by -y
bits to the right (if y
<=0). In other words, this
returns floor(x * expt(2,y))
.
uintC integer_length (const cl_I& x)
x
in two's complement notation. This is the smallest n >= 0 such that
-2^n <= x < 2^n. If x > 0, this is the unique n > 0 such that
2^(n-1) <= x < 2^n.
uintC ord2 (const cl_I& x)
x
must be non-zero. This function returns the number of 0 bits at the
right of x
in two's complement notation. This is the largest n >= 0
such that 2^n divides x
.
uintC power2p (const cl_I& x)
x
must be > 0. This function checks whether x
is a power of 2.
If x
= 2^(n-1), it returns n. Else it returns 0.
(See also the function logp
.)
uint32 gcd (unsigned long a, unsigned long b)
cl_I gcd (const cl_I& a, const cl_I& b)
a
and b
,
normalized to be >= 0.
cl_I xgcd (const cl_I& a, const cl_I& b, cl_I* u, cl_I* v)
g
of
a
and b
and at the same time the representation of g
as an integral linear combination of a
and b
:
u
and v
with u*a+v*b = g
, g
>= 0.
u
and v
will be normalized to be of smallest possible absolute
value, in the following sense: If a
and b
are non-zero, and
abs(a) != abs(b)
, u
and v
will satisfy the inequalities
abs(u) <= abs(b)/(2*g)
, abs(v) <= abs(a)/(2*g)
.
cl_I lcm (const cl_I& a, const cl_I& b)
a
and b
,
normalized to be >= 0.
bool logp (const cl_I& a, const cl_I& b, cl_RA* l)
bool logp (const cl_RA& a, const cl_RA& b, cl_RA* l)
a
must be > 0. b
must be >0 and != 1. If log(a,b) is
rational number, this function returns true and sets *l = log(a,b), else
it returns false.
int jacobi (signed long a, signed long b)
int jacobi (const cl_I& a, const cl_I& b)
a,b
must be integers, b>0
and odd. The result is 0
iff gcd(a,b)>1.
bool isprobprime (const cl_I& n)
n
is a small prime or passes the Miller-Rabin
primality test. The probability of a false positive is 1:10^30.
cl_I nextprobprime (const cl_R& x)
x
.
cl_I factorial (uintL n)
n
must be a small integer >= 0. This function returns the factorial
n
! = 1*2*...*n
.
cl_I doublefactorial (uintL n)
n
must be a small integer >= 0. This function returns the
doublefactorial n
!! = 1*3*...*n
or
n
!! = 2*4*...*n
, respectively.
cl_I binomial (uintL n, uintL k)
n
and k
must be small integers >= 0. This function returns the
binomial coefficient
for 0 <= k <= n, 0 else.
Recall that a floating-point number consists of a sign s
, an
exponent e
and a mantissa m
. The value of the number is
(-1)^s * 2^e * m
.
Each of the classes
cl_F
, cl_SF
, cl_FF
, cl_DF
, cl_LF
defines the following operations.
scale_float (const
type& x, sintC delta)
scale_float (const
type& x, const cl_I& delta)
x*2^delta
. This is more efficient than an explicit multiplication
because it copies x
and modifies the exponent.
The following functions provide an abstract interface to the underlying representation of floating-point numbers.
sintE float_exponent (const
type& x)
e
of x
.
For x = 0.0
, this is 0. For x
non-zero, this is the unique
integer with 2^(e-1) <= abs(x) < 2^e
.
sintL float_radix (const
type& x)
2
.
float_sign (const
type& x)
s
of x
as a float. The value is 1 for
x
>= 0, -1 for x
< 0.
uintC float_digits (const
type& x)
x
, including the hidden bit. The value only depends on the type
of x
, not on its value.
uintC float_precision (const
type& x)
x
. Since denormalized numbers are not supported,
this is the same as float_digits(x)
if x
is non-zero, and
0 if x
= 0.
The complete internal representation of a float is encoded in the type
decoded_float
(or decoded_sfloat
, decoded_ffloat
,
decoded_dfloat
, decoded_lfloat
, respectively), defined by
struct decoded_typefloat { type mantissa; cl_I exponent; type sign; };
and returned by the function
decoded_
typefloat decode_float (const
type& x)
x
non-zero, this returns (-1)^s
, e
, m
with
x = (-1)^s * 2^e * m
and 0.5 <= m < 1.0
. For x
= 0,
it returns (-1)^s
=1, e
=0, m
=0.
e
is the same as returned by the function float_exponent
.
A complete decoding in terms of integers is provided as type
struct cl_idecoded_float { cl_I mantissa; cl_I exponent; cl_I sign; };
by the following function:
cl_idecoded_float integer_decode_float (const
type& x)
x
non-zero, this returns (-1)^s
, e
, m
with
x = (-1)^s * 2^e * m
and m
an integer with float_digits(x)
bits. For x
= 0, it returns (-1)^s
=1, e
=0, m
=0.
WARNING: The exponent e
is not the same as the one returned by
the functions decode_float
and float_exponent
.
Some other function, implemented only for class cl_F
:
cl_F float_sign (const cl_F& x, const cl_F& y)
y
and whose sign is that of x
. If x
is
zero, it is treated as positive. Same for y
.
The type float_format_t
describes a floating-point format.
float_format_t float_format (uintE n)
n
decimal digits in the mantissa (after the decimal point).
float_format_t float_format (const cl_F& x)
x
.
float_format_t default_float_format
To convert a real number to a float, each of the types
cl_R
, cl_F
, cl_I
, cl_RA
,
int
, unsigned int
, float
, double
defines the following operations:
cl_F cl_float (const
type&x, float_format_t f)
x
as a float of format f
.
cl_F cl_float (const
type&x, const cl_F& y)
x
in the float format of y
.
cl_F cl_float (const
type&x)
x
as a float of format default_float_format
if
it is an exact number, or x
itself if it is already a float.
Of course, converting a number to a float can lose precision.
Every floating-point format has some characteristic numbers:
cl_F most_positive_float (float_format_t f)
f
.
cl_F most_negative_float (float_format_t f)
f
.
cl_F least_positive_float (float_format_t f)
f
.
cl_F least_negative_float (float_format_t f)
f
.
cl_F float_epsilon (float_format_t f)
1+e != 1
.
cl_F float_negative_epsilon (float_format_t f)
1-e != 1
.
Each of the classes cl_R
, cl_RA
, cl_F
defines the following operation:
cl_RA rational (const
type& x)
x
as an exact number. If x
is already
an exact number, this is x
. If x
is a floating-point number,
the value is a rational number whose denominator is a power of 2.
In order to convert back, say, (cl_F)(cl_R)"1/3"
to 1/3
, there is
the function
cl_RA rationalize (const cl_R& x)
x
is a floating-point number, it actually represents an interval
of real numbers, and this function returns the rational number with
smallest denominator (and smallest numerator, in magnitude)
which lies in this interval.
If x
is already an exact number, this function returns x
.
If x
is any float, one has
cl_float(rational(x),x) = x
cl_float(rationalize(x),x) = x
A random generator is a machine which produces (pseudo-)random numbers.
The include file <cln/random.h>
defines a class random_state
which contains the state of a random generator. If you make a copy
of the random number generator, the original one and the copy will produce
the same sequence of random numbers.
The following functions return (pseudo-)random numbers in different formats. Calling one of these modifies the state of the random number generator in a complicated but deterministic way.
random_state default_random_state
contains a default random number generator. It is used when the functions
below are called without random_state
argument.
uint32 random32 (random_state& randomstate)
uint32 random32 ()
cl_I random_I (random_state& randomstate, const cl_I& n)
cl_I random_I (const cl_I& n)
n
must be an integer > 0. This function returns a random integer x
in the range 0 <= x < n
.
cl_F random_F (random_state& randomstate, const cl_F& n)
cl_F random_F (const cl_F& n)
n
must be a float > 0. This function returns a random floating-point
number of the same format as n
in the range 0 <= x < n
.
cl_R random_R (random_state& randomstate, const cl_R& n)
cl_R random_R (const cl_R& n)
random_I
if n
is an integer and like random_F
if n
is a float.
The modifying C/C++ operators +=
, -=
, *=
, /=
,
&=
, |=
, ^=
, <<=
, >>=
are all available.
For the classes cl_N
, cl_R
, cl_RA
,
cl_F
, cl_SF
, cl_FF
, cl_DF
, cl_LF
:
& operator += (
type&, const
type&)
& operator -= (
type&, const
type&)
& operator *= (
type&, const
type&)
& operator /= (
type&, const
type&)
For the class cl_I
:
& operator += (
type&, const
type&)
& operator -= (
type&, const
type&)
& operator *= (
type&, const
type&)
& operator &= (
type&, const
type&)
& operator |= (
type&, const
type&)
& operator ^= (
type&, const
type&)
& operator <<= (
type&, const
type&)
& operator >>= (
type&, const
type&)
For the classes cl_N
, cl_R
, cl_RA
, cl_I
,
cl_F
, cl_SF
, cl_FF
, cl_DF
, cl_LF
:
& operator ++ (
type& x)
++x
.
void operator ++ (
type& x, int)
x++
.
& operator -- (
type& x)
--x
.
void operator -- (
type& x, int)
x--
.
Note that by using these modifying operators, you don't gain efficiency: In CLN ‘x += y;’ is exactly the same as ‘x = x+y;’, not more efficient.
All computations deal with the internal representations of the numbers.
Every number has an external representation as a sequence of ASCII characters. Several external representations may denote the same number, for example, "20.0" and "20.000".
Converting an internal to an external representation is called “printing”,
converting an external to an internal representation is called “reading”.
In CLN, it is always true that conversion of an internal to an external
representation and then back to an internal representation will yield the
same internal representation. Symbolically: read(print(x)) == x
.
This is called “print-read consistency”.
Different types of numbers have different external representations (case is insignificant):
.
with a trailing dot
for decimal integers
and the #
nR
, #b
, #o
, #x
prefixes.
/
{digit}+.
The #
nR
, #b
, #o
, #x
prefixes are allowed
here as well.
.
{digit}*exponent or
sign{digit}*.
{digit}+. A precision specifier
of the form _prec may be appended. There must be at least
one digit in the non-exponent part. The exponent has the syntax
expmarker expsign {digit}+.
The exponent marker is
or ‘e’, which denotes a default float format. The precision specifying
suffix has the syntax _prec where prec denotes the number of
valid mantissa digits (in decimal, excluding leading zeroes), cf. also
function ‘float_format’.
+
imagparti
. Of course,
if imagpart is negative, its printed representation begins with
a ‘-’, and the ‘+’ between realpart and imagpart
may be omitted. Note that this notation cannot be used when the imagpart
is rational and the rational number's base is >18, because the ‘i’
is then read as a digit.
#C(
realpart imagpart)
.
Including <cln/io.h>
defines flexible input functions:
cl_N read_complex (std::istream& stream, const cl_read_flags& flags)
cl_R read_real (std::istream& stream, const cl_read_flags& flags)
cl_F read_float (std::istream& stream, const cl_read_flags& flags)
cl_RA read_rational (std::istream& stream, const cl_read_flags& flags)
cl_I read_integer (std::istream& stream, const cl_read_flags& flags)
stream
. The flags
are parameters which
affect the input syntax. Whitespace before the number is silently skipped.
cl_N read_complex (const cl_read_flags& flags, const char * string, const char * string_limit, const char * * end_of_parse)
cl_R read_real (const cl_read_flags& flags, const char * string, const char * string_limit, const char * * end_of_parse)
cl_F read_float (const cl_read_flags& flags, const char * string, const char * string_limit, const char * * end_of_parse)
cl_RA read_rational (const cl_read_flags& flags, const char * string, const char * string_limit, const char * * end_of_parse)
cl_I read_integer (const cl_read_flags& flags, const char * string, const char * string_limit, const char * * end_of_parse)
flags
are parameters which
affect the input syntax. The string starts at string
and ends at
string_limit
(exclusive limit). string_limit
may also be
NULL
, denoting the entire string, i.e. equivalent to
string_limit = string + strlen(string)
. If end_of_parse
is
NULL
, the string in memory must contain exactly one number and nothing
more, else an exception will be thrown. If end_of_parse
is not NULL
, *end_of_parse
will be assigned a pointer past
the last parsed character (i.e. string_limit
if nothing came after
the number). Whitespace is not allowed.
The structure cl_read_flags
contains the following fields:
cl_read_syntax_t syntax
syntax_number
, syntax_real
, syntax_rational
,
syntax_integer
, syntax_float
, syntax_sfloat
,
syntax_ffloat
, syntax_dfloat
, syntax_lfloat
.
cl_read_lsyntax_t lsyntax
lsyntax_standard
lsyntax_algebraic
+
yi
for complex numbers,
lsyntax_commonlisp
#b
, #o
, #x
syntaxes for binary, octal,
hexadecimal numbers,
#
baseR
for rational numbers in a given base,
#c(
realpart imagpart)
for complex numbers,
lsyntax_all
unsigned int rational_base
float_format_t float_flags.default_float_format
float_format_t float_flags.default_lfloat_format
bool float_flags.mantissa_dependent_float_format
Including <cln/io.h>
defines a number of simple output functions
that write to std::ostream&
:
void fprintchar (std::ostream& stream, char c)
x
literally on the stream
.
void fprint (std::ostream& stream, const char * string)
string
literally on the stream
.
void fprintdecimal (std::ostream& stream, int x)
void fprintdecimal (std::ostream& stream, const cl_I& x)
x
in decimal on the stream
.
void fprintbinary (std::ostream& stream, const cl_I& x)
x
in binary (base 2, without prefix)
on the stream
.
void fprintoctal (std::ostream& stream, const cl_I& x)
x
in octal (base 8, without prefix)
on the stream
.
void fprinthexadecimal (std::ostream& stream, const cl_I& x)
x
in hexadecimal (base 16, without prefix)
on the stream
.
Each of the classes cl_N
, cl_R
, cl_RA
, cl_I
,
cl_F
, cl_SF
, cl_FF
, cl_DF
, cl_LF
defines, in <cln/
type_io.h>
, the following output functions:
void fprint (std::ostream& stream, const
type& x)
std::ostream& operator<< (std::ostream& stream, const
type& x)
x
on the stream
. The output may depend
on the global printer settings in the variable default_print_flags
.
The ostream
flags and settings (flags, width and locale) are
ignored.
The most flexible output function, defined in <cln/
type_io.h>
,
are the following:
void print_complex (std::ostream& stream, const cl_print_flags& flags, const cl_N& z); void print_real (std::ostream& stream, const cl_print_flags& flags, const cl_R& z); void print_float (std::ostream& stream, const cl_print_flags& flags, const cl_F& z); void print_rational (std::ostream& stream, const cl_print_flags& flags, const cl_RA& z); void print_integer (std::ostream& stream, const cl_print_flags& flags, const cl_I& z);
Prints the number x
on the stream
. The flags
are
parameters which affect the output.
The structure type cl_print_flags
contains the following fields:
unsigned int rational_base
10
.
bool rational_readably
#
nR
or #b
or #o
or #x
prefixes, trailing dot). Default is false.
bool float_readably
float_format_t default_float_format
float_format_ffloat
.
bool complex_readably
#C(
realpart imagpart)
. Default is false.
cl_string univpoly_varname
"x"
.
The global variable default_print_flags
contains the default values,
used by the function fprint
.
CLN has a class of abstract rings.
Ring cl_ring <cln/ring.h>
Rings can be compared for equality:
bool operator== (const cl_ring&, const cl_ring&)
bool operator!= (const cl_ring&, const cl_ring&)
Given a ring R
, the following members can be used.
void R->fprint (std::ostream& stream, const cl_ring_element& x)
bool R->equal (const cl_ring_element& x, const cl_ring_element& y)
cl_ring_element R->zero ()
bool R->zerop (const cl_ring_element& x)
cl_ring_element R->plus (const cl_ring_element& x, const cl_ring_element& y)
cl_ring_element R->minus (const cl_ring_element& x, const cl_ring_element& y)
cl_ring_element R->uminus (const cl_ring_element& x)
cl_ring_element R->one ()
cl_ring_element R->canonhom (const cl_I& x)
cl_ring_element R->mul (const cl_ring_element& x, const cl_ring_element& y)
cl_ring_element R->square (const cl_ring_element& x)
cl_ring_element R->expt_pos (const cl_ring_element& x, const cl_I& y)
The following rings are built-in.
cl_null_ring cl_0_ring
cl_complex_ring cl_C_ring
cl_N
.
cl_real_ring cl_R_ring
cl_R
.
cl_rational_ring cl_RA_ring
cl_RA
.
cl_integer_ring cl_I_ring
cl_I
.
Type tests can be performed for any of cl_C_ring
, cl_R_ring
,
cl_RA_ring
, cl_I_ring
:
bool instanceof (const cl_number& x, const cl_number_ring& R)
CLN implements modular integers, i.e. integers modulo a fixed integer N.
The modulus is explicitly part of every modular integer. CLN doesn't
allow you to (accidentally) mix elements of different modular rings,
e.g. (3 mod 4) + (2 mod 5)
will result in a runtime error.
(Ideally one would imagine a generic data type cl_MI(N)
, but C++
doesn't have generic types. So one has to live with runtime checks.)
The class of modular integer rings is
Ring cl_ring <cln/ring.h> | | Modular integer ring cl_modint_ring <cln/modinteger.h>
and the class of all modular integers (elements of modular integer rings) is
Modular integer cl_MI <cln/modinteger.h>
Modular integer rings are constructed using the function
cl_modint_ring find_modint_ring (const cl_I& N)
N
, like powers of two
and odd numbers for which Montgomery multiplication will be a win,
and precomputes any necessary auxiliary data for computing modulo N
.
There is a cache table of rings, indexed by N
(or, more precisely,
by abs(N)
). This ensures that the precomputation costs are reduced
to a minimum.
Modular integer rings can be compared for equality:
bool operator== (const cl_modint_ring&, const cl_modint_ring&)
bool operator!= (const cl_modint_ring&, const cl_modint_ring&)
find_modint_ring
with the same argument necessarily return the
same ring because it is memoized in the cache table.
Given a modular integer ring R
, the following members can be used.
cl_I R->modulus
abs(N)
.
cl_MI R->zero()
0 mod N
.
cl_MI R->one()
1 mod N
.
cl_MI R->canonhom (const cl_I& x)
x mod N
.
cl_I R->retract (const cl_MI& x)
R->canonhom
. It returns the
standard representative (>=0
, <N
) of x
.
cl_MI R->random(random_state& randomstate)
cl_MI R->random()
N
.
The following operations are defined on modular integers.
cl_modint_ring x.ring ()
x
belongs.
cl_MI operator+ (const cl_MI&, const cl_MI&)
cl_MI operator- (const cl_MI&, const cl_MI&)
cl_MI operator- (const cl_MI&)
cl_MI operator* (const cl_MI&, const cl_MI&)
cl_MI square (const cl_MI&)
cl_MI recip (const cl_MI& x)
x^-1
of a modular integer x
. x
must be coprime to the modulus, otherwise an error message is issued.
cl_MI div (const cl_MI& x, const cl_MI& y)
x*y^-1
of two modular integers x
, y
.
y
must be coprime to the modulus, otherwise an error message is issued.
cl_MI expt_pos (const cl_MI& x, const cl_I& y)
y
must be > 0. Returns x^y
.
cl_MI expt (const cl_MI& x, const cl_I& y)
x^y
. If y
is negative, x
must be coprime to the
modulus, else an error message is issued.
cl_MI operator<< (const cl_MI& x, const cl_I& y)
x*2^y
.
cl_MI operator>> (const cl_MI& x, const cl_I& y)
x*2^-y
. When y
is positive, the modulus must be odd,
or an error message is issued.
bool operator== (const cl_MI&, const cl_MI&)
bool operator!= (const cl_MI&, const cl_MI&)
bool zerop (const cl_MI& x)
x
is 0 mod N
.
The following output functions are defined (see also the chapter on input/output).
void fprint (std::ostream& stream, const cl_MI& x)
std::ostream& operator<< (std::ostream& stream, const cl_MI& x)
x
on the stream
. The output may depend
on the global printer settings in the variable default_print_flags
.
CLN implements two symbolic (non-numeric) data types: strings and symbols.
String cl_string <cln/string.h>
implements immutable strings.
Strings are constructed through the following constructors:
cl_string (const char * s)
s
.
cl_string (const char * ptr, unsigned long len)
len
characters at
ptr[0]
, ..., ptr[len-1]
. NUL characters are allowed.
The following functions are available on strings:
operator =
cl_string
and const char *
.
s.size()
strlen(s)
s
.
s[i]
i
th character of the string s
.
i
must be in the range 0 <= i < s.size()
.
bool equal (const cl_string& s1, const cl_string& s2)
const char *
.
Symbols are uniquified strings: all symbols with the same name are shared. This means that comparison of two symbols is fast (effectively just a pointer comparison), whereas comparison of two strings must in the worst case walk both strings until their end. Symbols are used, for example, as tags for properties, as names of variables in polynomial rings, etc.
Symbols are constructed through the following constructor:
cl_symbol (const cl_string& s)
The following operations are available on symbols:
cl_string (const cl_symbol& sym)
cl_string
: Returns the string which names the symbol
sym
.
bool equal (const cl_symbol& sym1, const cl_symbol& sym2)
CLN implements univariate polynomials (polynomials in one variable) over an
arbitrary ring. The indeterminate variable may be either unnamed (and will be
printed according to default_print_flags.univpoly_varname
, which
defaults to ‘x’) or carry a given name. The base ring and the
indeterminate are explicitly part of every polynomial. CLN doesn't allow you to
(accidentally) mix elements of different polynomial rings, e.g.
(a^2+1) * (b^3-1)
will result in a runtime error. (Ideally this should
return a multivariate polynomial, but they are not yet implemented in CLN.)
The classes of univariate polynomial rings are
Ring cl_ring <cln/ring.h> | | Univariate polynomial ring cl_univpoly_ring <cln/univpoly.h> | +----------------+-------------------+ | | | Complex polynomial ring | Modular integer polynomial ring cl_univpoly_complex_ring | cl_univpoly_modint_ring <cln/univpoly_complex.h> | <cln/univpoly_modint.h> | +----------------+ | | Real polynomial ring | cl_univpoly_real_ring | <cln/univpoly_real.h> | | +----------------+ | | Rational polynomial ring | cl_univpoly_rational_ring | <cln/univpoly_rational.h> | | +----------------+ | Integer polynomial ring cl_univpoly_integer_ring <cln/univpoly_integer.h>
and the corresponding classes of univariate polynomials are
Univariate polynomial cl_UP <cln/univpoly.h> | +----------------+-------------------+ | | | Complex polynomial | Modular integer polynomial cl_UP_N | cl_UP_MI <cln/univpoly_complex.h> | <cln/univpoly_modint.h> | +----------------+ | | Real polynomial | cl_UP_R | <cln/univpoly_real.h> | | +----------------+ | | Rational polynomial | cl_UP_RA | <cln/univpoly_rational.h> | | +----------------+ | Integer polynomial cl_UP_I <cln/univpoly_integer.h>
Univariate polynomial rings are constructed using the functions
cl_univpoly_ring find_univpoly_ring (const cl_ring& R)
cl_univpoly_ring find_univpoly_ring (const cl_ring& R, const cl_symbol& varname)
R
may be an arbitrary ring. This function takes care of finding out
about special cases of R
, such as the rings of complex numbers,
real numbers, rational numbers, integers, or modular integer rings.
There is a cache table of rings, indexed by R
and varname
.
This ensures that two calls of this function with the same arguments will
return the same polynomial ring.
cl_univpoly_complex_ring find_univpoly_ring (const cl_complex_ring& R)
cl_univpoly_complex_ring find_univpoly_ring (const cl_complex_ring& R, const cl_symbol& varname)
cl_univpoly_real_ring find_univpoly_ring (const cl_real_ring& R)
cl_univpoly_real_ring find_univpoly_ring (const cl_real_ring& R, const cl_symbol& varname)
cl_univpoly_rational_ring find_univpoly_ring (const cl_rational_ring& R)
cl_univpoly_rational_ring find_univpoly_ring (const cl_rational_ring& R, const cl_symbol& varname)
cl_univpoly_integer_ring find_univpoly_ring (const cl_integer_ring& R)
cl_univpoly_integer_ring find_univpoly_ring (const cl_integer_ring& R, const cl_symbol& varname)
cl_univpoly_modint_ring find_univpoly_ring (const cl_modint_ring& R)
cl_univpoly_modint_ring find_univpoly_ring (const cl_modint_ring& R, const cl_symbol& varname)
find_univpoly_ring
,
only the return type is more specific, according to the base ring's type.
Given a univariate polynomial ring R
, the following members can be used.
cl_ring R->basering()
cl_UP R->zero()
0 in R
, a polynomial of degree -1.
cl_UP R->one()
1 in R
, a polynomial of degree == 0.
cl_UP R->canonhom (const cl_I& x)
x in R
, a polynomial of degree <= 0.
cl_UP R->monomial (const cl_ring_element& x, uintL e)
x * X^e
, where X
is the
indeterminate.
cl_UP R->create (sintL degree)
-1
. After creating the polynomial, you should put in the coefficients,
using the set_coeff
member function, and then call the finalize
member function.
The following are the only destructive operations on univariate polynomials.
void set_coeff (cl_UP& x, uintL index, const cl_ring_element& y)
X^index
in x
to be y
.
After changing a polynomial and before applying any "normal" operation on it,
you should call its finalize
member function.
void finalize (cl_UP& x)
The following operations are defined on univariate polynomials.
cl_univpoly_ring x.ring ()
x
belongs.
cl_UP operator+ (const cl_UP&, const cl_UP&)
cl_UP operator- (const cl_UP&, const cl_UP&)
cl_UP operator- (const cl_UP&)
cl_UP operator* (const cl_UP&, const cl_UP&)
cl_UP square (const cl_UP&)
cl_UP expt_pos (const cl_UP& x, const cl_I& y)
y
must be > 0. Returns x^y
.
bool operator== (const cl_UP&, const cl_UP&)
bool operator!= (const cl_UP&, const cl_UP&)
bool zerop (const cl_UP& x)
x
is 0 in R
.
sintL degree (const cl_UP& x)
-1
.
sintL ldegree (const cl_UP& x)
-1
.
cl_ring_element coeff (const cl_UP& x, uintL index)
X^index
in the polynomial x
.
cl_ring_element x (const cl_ring_element& y)
x
is a polynomial and y
belongs to the base ring,
then ‘x(y)’ returns the value of the substitution of y
into
x
.
cl_UP deriv (const cl_UP& x)
x
with respect to the
indeterminate X
.
The following output functions are defined (see also the chapter on input/output).
void fprint (std::ostream& stream, const cl_UP& x)
std::ostream& operator<< (std::ostream& stream, const cl_UP& x)
x
on the stream
. The output may
depend on the global printer settings in the variable
default_print_flags
.
The following functions return special polynomials.
cl_UP_I tschebychev (sintL n)
cl_UP_I hermite (sintL n)
cl_UP_RA legendre (sintL n)
cl_UP_I laguerre (sintL n)
Information how to derive the differential equation satisfied by each
of these polynomials from their definition can be found in the
doc/polynomial/
directory.
Using C++ as an implementation language provides
operator+ (const cl_MI&, const cl_MI&)
requires that both
arguments belong to the same modular ring cannot be expressed as a compile-time
information.
+
, -
, *
,
=
, ==
, ... can be used in infix notation, which is more
convenient than Lisp notation ‘(+ x y)’ or C notation ‘add(x,y,&z)’.
With these language features, there is no need for two separate languages, one for the implementation of the library and one in which the library's users can program. This means that a prototype implementation of an algorithm can be integrated into the library immediately after it has been tested and debugged. No need to rewrite it in a low-level language after having prototyped in a high-level language.
In order to save memory allocations, CLN implements:
x+0
returns x
without copying
it.
>= -2^29
,
< 2^29
don't consume heap memory, unless they were explicitly allocated
on the heap.
Speed efficiency is obtained by the combination of the following tricks and algorithms:
i386
, m68k
, sparc
, mips
, arm
).
O(N^2)
algorithm, the Karatsuba multiplication, which is an
algorithm.
All the number classes are reference count classes: They only contain a pointer to an object in the heap. Upon construction, assignment and destruction of number objects, only the objects' reference count are manipulated.
Memory occupied by number objects are automatically reclaimed as soon as their reference count drops to zero.
For number rings, another strategy is implemented: There is a cache of, for example, the modular integer rings. A modular integer ring is destroyed only if its reference count dropped to zero and the cache is about to be resized. The effect of this strategy is that recently used rings remain cached, whereas undue memory consumption through cached rings is avoided.
For the following discussion, we will assume that you have installed
the CLN source in $CLN_DIR
and built it in $CLN_TARGETDIR
.
For example, for me it's CLN_DIR="$HOME/cln"
and
CLN_TARGETDIR="$HOME/cln/linuxelf"
. You might define these as
environment variables, or directly substitute the appropriate values.
Until you have installed CLN in a public place, the following options are needed:
When you compile CLN application code, add the flags
-I$CLN_DIR/include -I$CLN_TARGETDIR/include
to the C++ compiler's command line (make
variable CFLAGS or CXXFLAGS).
When you link CLN application code to form an executable, add the flags
$CLN_TARGETDIR/src/libcln.a
to the C/C++ compiler's command line (make
variable LIBS).
If you did a make install
, the include files are installed in a
public directory (normally /usr/local/include
), hence you don't
need special flags for compiling. The library has been installed to a
public directory as well (normally /usr/local/lib
), hence when
linking a CLN application it is sufficient to give the flag -lcln
.
To make the creation of software packages that use CLN easier, the
pkg-config
utility can be used. CLN provides all the necessary
metainformation in a file called cln.pc
(installed in
/usr/local/lib/pkgconfig
by default). A program using CLN can
be compiled and linked using 1
g++ `pkg-config --libs cln` `pkg-config --cflags cln` prog.cc -o prog
Software using GNU autoconf can check for CLN with the
PKG_CHECK_MODULES
macro supplied with pkg-config
.
PKG_CHECK_MODULES([CLN], [cln >= MIN-VERSION])
This will check for CLN version at least MIN-VERSION. If the required version was found, the variables CLN_CFLAGS and CLN_LIBS are set. Otherwise the configure script aborts. If this is not the desired behaviour, use the following code instead 2
PKG_CHECK_MODULES([CLN], [cln >= MIN-VERSION], [], [AC_MSG_WARNING([No suitable version of CLN can be found])])
Here is a summary of the include files and their contents.
<cln/object.h>
<cln/number.h>
<cln/complex.h>
<cln/real.h>
<cln/float.h>
<cln/sfloat.h>
<cln/ffloat.h>
<cln/dfloat.h>
<cln/lfloat.h>
<cln/rational.h>
<cln/integer.h>
<cln/io.h>
<cln/complex_io.h>
<cln/real_io.h>
<cln/float_io.h>
<cln/sfloat_io.h>
<cln/ffloat_io.h>
<cln/dfloat_io.h>
<cln/lfloat_io.h>
<cln/rational_io.h>
<cln/integer_io.h>
<cln/input.h>
<cln/output.h>
<cln/malloc.h>
malloc_hook
, free_hook
.
<cln/exception.h>
<cln/condition.h>
<cln/string.h>
<cln/symbol.h>
<cln/proplist.h>
<cln/ring.h>
<cln/null_ring.h>
<cln/complex_ring.h>
<cln/real_ring.h>
<cln/rational_ring.h>
<cln/integer_ring.h>
<cln/numtheory.h>
<cln/modinteger.h>
<cln/V.h>
<cln/GV.h>
<cln/GV_number.h>
<cln/GV_complex.h>
<cln/GV_real.h>
<cln/GV_rational.h>
<cln/GV_integer.h>
<cln/GV_modinteger.h>
<cln/SV.h>
<cln/SV_number.h>
<cln/SV_complex.h>
<cln/SV_real.h>
<cln/SV_rational.h>
<cln/SV_integer.h>
<cln/SV_ringelt.h>
<cln/univpoly.h>
<cln/univpoly_integer.h>
<cln/univpoly_rational.h>
<cln/univpoly_real.h>
<cln/univpoly_complex.h>
<cln/univpoly_modint.h>
<cln/timing.h>
<cln/cln.h>
A function which computes the nth Fibonacci number can be written as follows.
#include <cln/integer.h> #include <cln/real.h> using namespace cln; // Returns F_n, computed as the nearest integer to // ((1+sqrt(5))/2)^n/sqrt(5). Assume n>=0. const cl_I fibonacci (int n) { // Need a precision of ((1+sqrt(5))/2)^-n. float_format_t prec = float_format((int)(0.208987641*n+5)); cl_R sqrt5 = sqrt(cl_float(5,prec)); cl_R phi = (1+sqrt5)/2; return round1( expt(phi,n)/sqrt5 ); }
Let's explain what is going on in detail.
The include file <cln/integer.h>
is necessary because the type
cl_I
is used in the function, and the include file <cln/real.h>
is needed for the type cl_R
and the floating point number functions.
The order of the include files does not matter. In order not to write
out cln::
foo in this simple example we can safely import
the whole namespace cln
.
Then comes the function declaration. The argument is an int
, the
result an integer. The return type is defined as ‘const cl_I’, not
simply ‘cl_I’, because that allows the compiler to detect typos like
‘fibonacci(n) = 100’. It would be possible to declare the return
type as const cl_R
(real number) or even const cl_N
(complex
number). We use the most specialized possible return type because functions
which call ‘fibonacci’ will be able to profit from the compiler's type
analysis: Adding two integers is slightly more efficient than adding the
same objects declared as complex numbers, because it needs less type
dispatch. Also, when linking to CLN as a non-shared library, this minimizes
the size of the resulting executable program.
The result will be computed as expt(phi,n)/sqrt(5), rounded to the nearest integer. In order to get a correct result, the absolute error should be less than 1/2, i.e. the relative error should be less than sqrt(5)/(2*expt(phi,n)). To this end, the first line computes a floating point precision for sqrt(5) and phi.
Then sqrt(5) is computed by first converting the integer 5 to a floating point number and than taking the square root. The converse, first taking the square root of 5, and then converting to the desired precision, would not work in CLN: The square root would be computed to a default precision (normally single-float precision), and the following conversion could not help about the lacking accuracy. This is because CLN is not a symbolic computer algebra system and does not represent sqrt(5) in a non-numeric way.
The type cl_R
for sqrt5 and, in the following line, phi is the only
possible choice. You cannot write cl_F
because the C++ compiler can
only infer that cl_float(5,prec)
is a real number. You cannot write
cl_N
because a ‘round1’ does not exist for general complex
numbers.
When the function returns, all the local variables in the function are automatically reclaimed (garbage collected). Only the result survives and gets passed to the caller.
The file fibonacci.cc
in the subdirectory examples
contains this implementation together with an even faster algorithm.
When debugging a CLN application with GNU gdb
, two facilities are
available from the library:
runtime_exception
is thrown. When an exception is cought, the stack
has already been unwound, so it is may not be possible to tell at which
point the exception was thrown. For debugging, it is best to set up a
catchpoint at the event of throwning a C++ exception:
(gdb) catch throw
When this catchpoint is hit, look at the stack's backtrace:
(gdb) where
When control over the type of exception is required, it may be possible
to set a breakpoint at the g++
runtime library function
__raise_exception
. Refer to the documentation of GNU gdb
for details.
print
command doesn't know about
CLN's types and therefore prints mostly useless hexadecimal addresses.
CLN offers a function cl_print
, callable from the debugger,
for printing number objects. In order to get this function, you have
to define the macro ‘CL_DEBUG’ and then include all the header files
for which you want cl_print
debugging support. For example:
#define CL_DEBUG #include <cln/string.h>
Now, if you have in your program a variable cl_string s
, and
inspect it under gdb
, the output may look like this:
(gdb) print s $7 = {<cl_gcpointer> = { = {pointer = 0x8055b60, heappointer = 0x8055b60, word = 134568800}}, } (gdb) call cl_print(s) (cl_string) "" $8 = 134568800
Note that the output of cl_print
goes to the program's error output,
not to gdb's standard output.
Note, however, that the above facility does not work with all CLN types,
only with number objects and similar. Therefore CLN offers a member function
debug_print()
on all CLN types. The same macro ‘CL_DEBUG’
is needed for this member function to be implemented. Under gdb
,
you call it like this:
(gdb) print s $7 = {<cl_gcpointer> = { = {pointer = 0x8055b60, heappointer = 0x8055b60, word = 134568800}}, } (gdb) call s.debug_print() (cl_string) "" (gdb) define cprint >call ($1).debug_print() >end (gdb) cprint s (cl_string) ""
Unfortunately, this feature does not seem to work under all circumstances.
If you encounter any problem, please don't hesitate to send a detailed
bugreport to the cln-list@ginac.de
mailing list. Please think
about your bug: consider including a short description of your operating
system and compilation environment with corresponding version numbers. A
description of your configuration options may also be helpful. Also, a
short test program together with the output you get and the output you
expect will help us to reproduce it quickly. Finally, do not forget to
report the version number of CLN.
CLN signals abnormal situations by throwning exceptions. All exceptions
thrown by the library are of type runtime_exception
or of a
derived type. Class cln::runtime_exception
in turn is derived
from the C++ standard library class std::runtime_error
and
inherits the .what()
member function that can be used to query
details about the cause of error.
The most important classes thrown by the library are
Exception base class runtime_exception <cln/exception.h> | +----------------+----------------+ | | Malformed number input Floating-point error read_number_exception floating_poing_exception <cln/number_io.h> <cln/float.h>
CLN has many more exception classes that allow for more fine-grained control but I refrain from documenting them all here. They are all declared in the public header files and they are all subclasses of the above exceptions, so catching those you are always on the safe side.
Floating point underflow denotes the situation when a floating-point
number is to be created which is so close to 0
that its exponent
is too low to be represented internally. By default, this causes the
exception floating_point_underflow_exception
(subclass of
floating_point_exception
) to be thrown. If you set the global
variable
bool cl_inhibit_floating_point_underflow
to true
, the exception will be inhibited, and a floating-point
zero will be generated instead. The default value of
cl_inhibit_floating_point_underflow
is false
.
The output of the function fprint
may be customized by changing the
value of the global variable default_print_flags
.
Every memory allocation of CLN is done through the function pointer
malloc_hook
. Freeing of this memory is done through the function
pointer free_hook
. The default versions of these functions,
provided in the library, call malloc
and free
and check
the malloc
result against NULL
.
If you want to provide another memory allocator, you need to define
the variables malloc_hook
and free_hook
yourself,
like this:
#include <cln/malloc.h> namespace cln { void* (*malloc_hook) (size_t size) = ...; void (*free_hook) (void* ptr) = ...; }
The cl_malloc_hook
function must not return a NULL
pointer.
It is not possible to change the memory allocator at runtime, because it is already called at program startup by the constructors of some global variables.
abs ()
: Elementary functionsacos ()
: Trigonometric functionsacosh ()
: Hyperbolic functionsAs()()
: Conversionsash ()
: Logical functionsasin
: Trigonometric functionsasin ()
: Trigonometric functionsasinh ()
: Hyperbolic functionsatan
: Trigonometric functionsatan ()
: Trigonometric functionsatanh ()
: Hyperbolic functionsbasering ()
: Functions on univariate polynomialsbinomial ()
: Combinatorial functionsboole ()
: Logical functionsboole_1
: Logical functionsboole_2
: Logical functionsboole_and
: Logical functionsboole_andc1
: Logical functionsboole_andc2
: Logical functionsboole_c1
: Logical functionsboole_c2
: Logical functionsboole_clr
: Logical functionsboole_eqv
: Logical functionsboole_nand
: Logical functionsboole_nor
: Logical functionsboole_orc1
: Logical functionsboole_orc2
: Logical functionsboole_set
: Logical functionsboole_xor
: Logical functionscanonhom ()
: Functions on univariate polynomialscanonhom ()
: Functions on modular integerscanonhom ()
: Ringscatalanconst ()
: Euler gammaceiling1 ()
: Rounding functionsceiling2 ()
: Rounding functionscis ()
: Trigonometric functionscl_byte
: Logical functionsCL_DEBUG
: Debugging supportcl_DF
: Floating-point numberscl_DF_fdiv_t
: Rounding functionscl_F
: Floating-point numberscl_F
: Ordinary number typescl_F_fdiv_t
: Rounding functionscl_FF
: Floating-point numberscl_FF_fdiv_t
: Rounding functionscl_float ()
: Conversion to floating-point numberscl_I_to_int ()
: Conversionscl_I_to_long ()
: Conversionscl_I_to_uint ()
: Conversionscl_I_to_ulong ()
: Conversionscl_idecoded_float
: Functions on floating-point numberscl_LF
: Floating-point numberscl_LF_fdiv_t
: Rounding functionscl_modint_ring
: Modular integer ringscl_N
: Ordinary number typescl_number
: Ordinary number typescl_R
: Ordinary number typescl_R_fdiv_t
: Rounding functionscl_RA
: Ordinary number typescl_SF
: Floating-point numberscl_SF_fdiv_t
: Rounding functionscl_string
: Stringscl_symbol
: Symbolscoeff ()
: Functions on univariate polynomialscompare ()
: Comparisonscomplex ()
: Elementary complex functionsconjugate ()
: Elementary complex functionscos ()
: Trigonometric functionscos_sin ()
: Trigonometric functionscos_sin_t
: Trigonometric functionscosh ()
: Hyperbolic functionscosh_sinh ()
: Hyperbolic functionscosh_sinh_t
: Hyperbolic functionscreate ()
: Functions on univariate polynomialsdebug_print ()
: Debugging supportdecode_float ()
: Functions on floating-point numbersdecoded_dfloat
: Functions on floating-point numbersdecoded_ffloat
: Functions on floating-point numbersdecoded_float
: Functions on floating-point numbersdecoded_lfloat
: Functions on floating-point numbersdecoded_sfloat
: Functions on floating-point numbersdefault_float_format
: Conversion to floating-point numbersdefault_print_flags
: Customizing I/Odefault_random_state
: Random number generatorsdegree ()
: Functions on univariate polynomialsdenominator ()
: Elementary rational functionsdeposit_field ()
: Logical functionsderiv ()
: Functions on univariate polynomialsdiv ()
: Functions on modular integersdouble_approx ()
: Conversionsdoublefactorial ()
: Combinatorial functionsdpb ()
: Logical functionsequal ()
: Symbolsequal ()
: Stringsequal ()
: Ringsequal_hashcode ()
: Comparisonseulerconst ()
: Euler gammaevenp ()
: Logical functionsexp ()
: Exponential and logarithmic functionsexp1 ()
: Exponential and logarithmic functionsexpt ()
: Functions on modular integersexpt ()
: Exponential and logarithmic functionsexpt ()
: Elementary functionsexpt_pos ()
: Functions on univariate polynomialsexpt_pos ()
: Functions on modular integersexpt_pos ()
: Ringsexpt_pos ()
: Elementary functionsexquo ()
: Elementary functionsfactorial ()
: Combinatorial functionsfceiling ()
: Rounding functionsfceiling2 ()
: Rounding functionsffloor ()
: Rounding functionsffloor2 ()
: Rounding functionsfinalize ()
: Functions on univariate polynomialsfind_modint_ring ()
: Modular integer ringsfind_univpoly_ring ()
: Univariate polynomial ringsfloat_approx ()
: Conversionsfloat_digits ()
: Functions on floating-point numbersfloat_epsilon ()
: Conversion to floating-point numbersfloat_exponent ()
: Functions on floating-point numbersfloat_format ()
: Conversion to floating-point numbersfloat_format_t
: Conversion to floating-point numbersfloat_negative_epsilon ()
: Conversion to floating-point numbersfloat_precision ()
: Functions on floating-point numbersfloat_radix ()
: Functions on floating-point numbersfloat_sign ()
: Functions on floating-point numbersfloating_point_exception
: Error handlingfloating_point_underflow_exception
: Floating-point underflowfloor1 ()
: Rounding functionsfloor2 ()
: Rounding functionsfprint ()
: Functions on univariate polynomialsfprint ()
: Functions on modular integersfprint ()
: Ringsfree_hook ()
: Customizing the memory allocatorfround ()
: Rounding functionsfround2 ()
: Rounding functionsftruncate ()
: Rounding functionsftruncate2 ()
: Rounding functionsgcd ()
: Number theoretic functionshermite ()
: Special polynomialsimagpart ()
: Elementary complex functionsinstanceof ()
: Ringsinteger_decode_float ()
: Functions on floating-point numbersinteger_length ()
: Logical functionsisprobprime()
: Number theoretic functionsisqrt ()
: Rootsjacobi()
: Number theoretic functionslaguerre ()
: Special polynomialslcm ()
: Number theoretic functionsldb ()
: Logical functionsldb_test ()
: Logical functionsleast_negative_float ()
: Conversion to floating-point numbersleast_positive_float ()
: Conversion to floating-point numberslegendre ()
: Special polynomialsln ()
: Exponential and logarithmic functionslog ()
: Exponential and logarithmic functionslogand ()
: Logical functionslogandc1 ()
: Logical functionslogandc2 ()
: Logical functionslogbitp ()
: Logical functionslogcount ()
: Logical functionslogeqv ()
: Logical functionslogior ()
: Logical functionslognand ()
: Logical functionslognor ()
: Logical functionslognot ()
: Logical functionslogorc1 ()
: Logical functionslogorc2 ()
: Logical functionslogp ()
: Number theoretic functionslogtest ()
: Logical functionslogxor ()
: Logical functionsmake
: Make utilitymalloc_hook ()
: Customizing the memory allocatormask_field ()
: Logical functionsmax ()
: Comparisonsmin ()
: Comparisonsminus ()
: Ringsminus1 ()
: Elementary functionsminusp ()
: Comparisonsmod ()
: Rounding functionsmodulus
: Functions on modular integersmonomial ()
: Functions on univariate polynomialsmost_negative_float ()
: Conversion to floating-point numbersmost_positive_float ()
: Conversion to floating-point numbersmul ()
: Ringsnextprobprime()
: Number theoretic functionsnumerator ()
: Elementary rational functionsoddp ()
: Logical functionsone ()
: Functions on univariate polynomialsone ()
: Functions on modular integersone ()
: Ringsoperator != ()
: Functions on univariate polynomialsoperator != ()
: Functions on modular integersoperator != ()
: Modular integer ringsoperator != ()
: Comparisonsoperator & ()
: Logical functionsoperator &= ()
: Modifying operatorsoperator () ()
: Functions on univariate polynomialsoperator * ()
: Functions on univariate polynomialsoperator * ()
: Functions on modular integersoperator * ()
: Elementary functionsoperator *= ()
: Modifying operatorsoperator + ()
: Functions on univariate polynomialsoperator + ()
: Functions on modular integersoperator + ()
: Elementary functionsoperator ++ ()
: Modifying operatorsoperator += ()
: Modifying operatorsoperator - ()
: Functions on univariate polynomialsoperator - ()
: Functions on modular integersoperator - ()
: Elementary functionsoperator -- ()
: Modifying operatorsoperator -= ()
: Modifying operatorsoperator / ()
: Elementary functionsoperator /= ()
: Modifying operatorsoperator < ()
: Comparisonsoperator << ()
: Functions on univariate polynomialsoperator << ()
: Functions on modular integersoperator << ()
: Logical functionsoperator <<= ()
: Modifying operatorsoperator <= ()
: Comparisonsoperator == ()
: Functions on univariate polynomialsoperator == ()
: Functions on modular integersoperator == ()
: Modular integer ringsoperator == ()
: Comparisonsoperator > ()
: Comparisonsoperator >= ()
: Comparisonsoperator >> ()
: Functions on modular integersoperator >> ()
: Logical functionsoperator >>= ()
: Modifying operatorsoperator [] ()
: Stringsoperator ^ ()
: Logical functionsoperator ^= ()
: Modifying operatorsoperator | ()
: Logical functionsoperator |= ()
: Modifying operatorsoperator ~ ()
: Logical functionsord2 ()
: Logical functionsphase ()
: Exponential and logarithmic functionspi ()
: Trigonometric functionspkg-config
: Compiler optionsplus ()
: Ringsplus1 ()
: Elementary functionsplusp ()
: Comparisonspower2p ()
: Logical functionsrandom ()
: Functions on modular integersrandom32 ()
: Random number generatorsrandom_F ()
: Random number generatorsrandom_I ()
: Random number generatorsrandom_R ()
: Random number generatorsrandom_state
: Random number generatorsrational ()
: Conversion to rational numbersrationalize ()
: Conversion to rational numbersread_number_exception
: Error handlingrealpart ()
: Elementary complex functionsrecip ()
: Functions on modular integersrecip ()
: Elementary functionsrem ()
: Rounding functionsretract ()
: Functions on modular integersring ()
: Functions on univariate polynomialsring ()
: Functions on modular integersrootp ()
: Rootsround1 ()
: Rounding functionsround2 ()
: Rounding functionsruntime_exception
: Error handlingscale_float ()
: Functions on floating-point numberssed
: Sed utilityset_coeff ()
: Functions on univariate polynomialssignum ()
: Elementary functionssin ()
: Trigonometric functionssinh ()
: Hyperbolic functionssize()
: Stringssqrt ()
: Rootssqrtp ()
: Rootssquare ()
: Functions on univariate polynomialssquare ()
: Functions on modular integerssquare ()
: Ringssquare ()
: Elementary functionsstrlen ()
: Stringstan ()
: Trigonometric functionstanh ()
: Hyperbolic functionsThe()()
: Conversionstruncate1 ()
: Rounding functionstruncate2 ()
: Rounding functionstschebychev ()
: Special polynomialsuminus ()
: Ringsxgcd ()
: Number theoretic functionszero ()
: Functions on univariate polynomialszero ()
: Functions on modular integerszero ()
: Ringszerop ()
: Functions on univariate polynomialszerop ()
: Functions on modular integerszerop ()
: Ringszerop ()
: Comparisonszeta ()
: Riemann zeta