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When mathn is required, the Math module changes as follows:

Standard Math module behaviour:

Math.sqrt(4/9)     # => 0.0
Math.sqrt(4.0/9.0) # => 0.666666666666667
Math.sqrt(- 4/9)   # => Errno::EDOM: Numerical argument out of domain - sqrt

After require 'mathn', this is changed to:

require 'mathn'
Math.sqrt(4/9)      # => 2/3
Math.sqrt(4.0/9.0)  # => 0.666666666666667
Math.sqrt(- 4/9)    # => Complex(0, 2/3)

Public Class Methods

rsqrt(a) click to toggle source

Compute square root of a non negative number. This method is internally used by Math.sqrt.

 
               # File mathn.rb, line 120
def rsqrt(a)
  if a.kind_of?(Float)
    sqrt!(a)
  elsif a.kind_of?(Rational)
    rsqrt(a.numerator)/rsqrt(a.denominator)
  else
    src = a
    max = 2 ** 32
    byte_a = [src & 0xffffffff]
    # ruby's bug
    while (src >= max) and (src >>= 32)
      byte_a.unshift src & 0xffffffff
    end

    answer = 0
    main = 0
    side = 0
    for elm in byte_a
      main = (main << 32) + elm
      side <<= 16
      if answer != 0
        if main * 4  < side * side
          applo = main.div(side)
        else
          applo = ((sqrt!(side * side + 4 * main) - side)/2.0).to_i + 1
        end
      else
        applo = sqrt!(main).to_i + 1
      end

      while (x = (side + applo) * applo) > main
        applo -= 1
      end
      main -= x
      answer = (answer << 16) + applo
      side += applo * 2
    end
    if main == 0
      answer
    else
      sqrt!(a)
    end
  end
end
sqrt(a) click to toggle source

Computes the square root of a. It makes use of Complex and Rational to have no rounding errors if possible.

Math.sqrt(4/9)      # => 2/3
Math.sqrt(- 4/9)    # => Complex(0, 2/3)
Math.sqrt(4.0/9.0)  # => 0.666666666666667

 
               # File mathn.rb, line 104
def sqrt(a)
  if a.kind_of?(Complex)
    sqrt!(a)
  elsif a.respond_to?(:nan?) and a.nan?
    a
  elsif a >= 0
    rsqrt(a)
  else
    Complex(0,rsqrt(-a))
  end
end