/* mpfr_fac_ui -- factorial of a non-negative integer Copyright 2001, 2004 Free Software Foundation, Inc. This file is part of the MPFR Library. The MPFR Library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2.1 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. The MPFR Library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU Lesser General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public License along with the MPFR Library; see the file COPYING.LIB. If not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA. */ #include "mpfr-impl.h" /* The computation of n! is done by n!=prod^{n}_{i=1}i */ int mpfr_fac_ui (mpfr_ptr y, unsigned long int x, mp_rnd_t rnd_mode) { /****** Declaration ******/ mpfr_t t; /* Variable of Intermediary Calculation*/ unsigned long i; int round, inexact = 0; int loop = 1; mp_prec_t Ny; /* Precision of output variable */ mp_prec_t Nt; /* Precision of Intermediary Calculation variable */ mp_prec_t err; /* Precision of error */ mp_rnd_t rnd; /***** test x = 0 ******/ if (x == 0) { return mpfr_set_ui (y, 1, GMP_RNDN); /* 0! = 1 */ } else { /* Initialisation of the Precision */ Ny = MPFR_PREC(y); /* compute the size of intermediary variable */ Nt = Ny + 2 * (int) __gmpfr_ceil_log2 ((double) x) + 7; mpfr_init2 (t, Nt); /* initialise of intermediary variable */ rnd = GMP_RNDZ; while (loop) { inexact = mpfr_set_ui (t, 1, rnd); for (i=2; i<=x; i++) /* compute factorial */ { round = mpfr_mul_ui (t, t, i, rnd); /* assume the first inexact product gives the sign of difference: is that always correct? */ if (inexact == 0) inexact = round; } err = Nt - 1 - (int) __gmpfr_ceil_log2 ((double) Nt); round = !inexact || mpfr_can_round (t, err, rnd, GMP_RNDZ, Ny + (rnd_mode == GMP_RNDN)); if (round) { /* If inexact = 0, then t is exactly x!, so round is the correct inexact flag. Otherwise, t != x! since we rounded to zero or away. */ round = mpfr_set (y, t, rnd_mode); if (inexact == 0) { inexact = round; loop = 0; } else if ((inexact < 0 && round <= 0) || (inexact > 0 && round >= 0)) { loop = 0; } else /* inexact and round have opposite signs: we cannot compute the inexact flag. Restart using the symmetric rounding. */ { rnd = (rnd == GMP_RNDZ) ? GMP_RNDU : GMP_RNDZ; Nt = Nt + 10; /*initialise of intermediary variable */ mpfr_set_prec (t, Nt); } } else { Nt = Nt + 10; /*initialise of intermediary variable */ mpfr_set_prec (t, Nt); } } mpfr_clear (t); return inexact; } }