1 /* Hypotenuse of a right-angled triangle.
2 Copyright (C) 2012-2021 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
3
4 This file is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
5 it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as
6 published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the
7 License, or (at your option) any later version.
8
9 This file is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
10 but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
11 MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
12 GNU Lesser General Public License for more details.
13
14 You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public License
15 along with this program. If not, see <https://www.gnu.org/licenses/>. */
16
17 /* Written by Bruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org>, 2012. */
18
19 #include <config.h>
20
21 /* Specification. */
22 #include <math.h>
23
24 double
25 hypot (double x, double y)
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26 {
27 if (isfinite (x) && isfinite (y))
28 {
29 /* Determine absolute values. */
30 x = fabs (x);
31 y = fabs (y);
32
33 {
34 /* Find the bigger and the smaller one. */
35 double a;
36 double b;
37
38 if (x >= y)
39 {
40 a = x;
41 b = y;
42 }
43 else
44 {
45 a = y;
46 b = x;
47 }
48 /* Now 0 <= b <= a. */
49
50 {
51 int e;
52 double an;
53 double bn;
54
55 /* Write a = an * 2^e, b = bn * 2^e with 0 <= bn <= an < 1. */
56 an = frexp (a, &e);
57 bn = ldexp (b, - e);
58
59 {
60 double cn;
61
62 /* Through the normalization, no unneeded overflow or underflow
63 will occur here. */
64 cn = sqrt (an * an + bn * bn);
65 return ldexp (cn, e);
66 }
67 }
68 }
69 }
70 else
71 {
72 if (isinf (x) || isinf (y))
73 /* x or y is infinite. Return +Infinity. */
74 return HUGE_VAL;
75 else
76 /* x or y is NaN. Return NaN. */
77 return x + y;
78 }
79 }