Date: Sun, 12 Aug 2012 23:14:06 -0000 From: Stephen Montgomery-Smith <stephen@missouri.edu> To: Bruce Evans <brde@optusnet.com.au> Cc: Diane Bruce <db@db.net>, John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org>, David Chisnall <theraven@freebsd.org>, Bruce Evans <bde@freebsd.org>, Steve Kargl <sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu>, David Schultz <das@freebsd.org>, Peter Jeremy <peter@rulingia.com>, Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com> Subject: Re: Use of C99 extra long double math functions after r236148 Message-ID: <5008DBC2.4040304@missouri.edu> Resent-Message-ID: <20120812231359.GH20453@server.rulingia.com> In-Reply-To: <20120720120802.F1061@besplex.bde.org> References: <20120529045612.GB4445@server.rulingia.com> <20120711223247.GA9964@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> <20120713114100.GB83006@server.rulingia.com> <201207130818.38535.jhb@freebsd.org> <9EB2DA4F-19D7-4BA5-8811-D9451CB1D907@theravensnest.org> <C527B388-3537-406F-BA6D-2FA45B9EAA3B@FreeBSD.org> <20120713155805.GC81965@zim.MIT.EDU> <20120714120432.GA70706@server.rulingia.com> <20120717084457.U3890@besplex.bde.org> <5004A5C7.1040405@missouri.edu> <5004DEA9.1050001@missouri.edu> <20120717200931.U6624@besplex.bde.org> <5006D13D.2080702@missouri.edu> <20120719144432.N1596@besplex.bde.org> <50083E83.9090404@missouri.edu> <20120720120802.F1061@besplex.bde.org>
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On 07/19/2012 09:19 PM, Bruce Evans wrote: > On Thu, 19 Jul 2012, Stephen Montgomery-Smith wrote: > >> I can now see that the separate cases of the real part and imaginary >> parts of casinh being zero is going to be hard. > > I won't ask for that and will measure errors relative to the absolute value > of the result. But the algorithm in the paper by Hull et al (the paper recommended by Jeremy) manages to do this very effectively. So I will abandon my algorithm, and use Hull et al's algorithms. The real part of casinh(z) is zero only if z=I*y, |y|<=1, and the imaginary part of casinh(z) is zero only if z is real. This is much easier to quantify in floating point terms than the condition for clog(z) to be pure imaginary (|z|=1). Once you realize this, you see that it makes sense to compute casinh(z) by considering the real and imaginary parts separately. And this is exactly what Hull et al does.home | help
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