/* mpfr_ui_pow_ui -- compute the power beetween two machine integer Copyright 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 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" int mpfr_ui_pow_ui (mpfr_ptr x, unsigned long int y, unsigned long int n, mp_rnd_t rnd) { long int err; unsigned long m; mpfr_t res; mp_prec_t prec; int inexact; MPFR_CLEAR_FLAGS(x); if (n == 0) /* y^0 = 1 for any y */ return mpfr_set_ui (x, 1, rnd); if (y == 0) /* 0^n = 0 for any n > 0 */ return mpfr_set_ui (x, 0, rnd); mpfr_save_emin_emax (); mpfr_init (res); prec = MPFR_PREC(x); do { int i; prec += 3; for (i = 0, m = n; m; i++, m >>= 1) prec++; mpfr_set_prec (res, prec); mpfr_clear_flags (); inexact = mpfr_set_ui (res, y, GMP_RNDU); err = 1; /* now 2^(i-1) <= n < 2^i: i=1+floor(log2(n)) */ for (i -= 2; i >= 0; i--) { if (mpfr_mul (res, res, res, GMP_RNDU)) inexact = 1; err++; if (n & (1UL << i)) if (mpfr_mul_ui (res, res, y, GMP_RNDU)) inexact = 1; } /* since the loop is executed floor(log2(n)) times, we have err = 1+floor(log2(n)). Since prec >= MPFR_PREC(x) + 4 + floor(log2(n)), prec > err */ err = prec - err; } while (inexact && !mpfr_can_round (res, err, GMP_RNDN, GMP_RNDZ, MPFR_PREC(x) + (rnd == GMP_RNDN))); if (mpfr_set (x, res, rnd)) inexact = 1; mpfr_clear (res); mpfr_restore_emin_emax (); return mpfr_check_range (x, inexact, rnd); }