#include #include #include "MathFunctions.h" // a hack square root calculation using simple operations double mysqrt(double x) { if (x <= 0) { return 0; } // if we have both log and exp then use them #if defined(HAVE_LOG) && defined(HAVE_EXP) double result = std::exp(std::log(x) * 0.5); std::cout << "Computing sqrt of " << x << " to be " << result << " using log and exp" << std::endl; #else double result = x; // do ten iterations for (int i = 0; i < 10; ++i) { if (result <= 0) { result = 0.1; } double delta = x - (result * result); result = result + 0.5 * delta / result; std::cout << "Computing sqrt of " << x << " to be " << result << std::endl; } #endif return result; }