# This file is part of Hypothesis, which may be found at # https://github.com/HypothesisWorks/hypothesis/ # # Most of this work is copyright (C) 2013-2021 David R. MacIver # (david@drmaciver.com), but it contains contributions by others. See # CONTRIBUTING.rst for a full list of people who may hold copyright, and # consult the git log if you need to determine who owns an individual # contribution. # # This Source Code Form is subject to the terms of the Mozilla Public License, # v. 2.0. If a copy of the MPL was not distributed with this file, You can # obtain one at https://mozilla.org/MPL/2.0/. # # END HEADER from math import fabs, inf, isinf, isnan, nan, sqrt from sys import float_info def cathetus(h, a): """Given the lengths of the hypotenuse and a side of a right triangle, return the length of the other side. A companion to the C99 hypot() function. Some care is needed to avoid underflow in the case of small arguments, and overflow in the case of large arguments as would occur for the naive implementation as sqrt(h*h - a*a). The behaviour with respect the non-finite arguments (NaNs and infinities) is designed to be as consistent as possible with the C99 hypot() specifications. This function relies on the system ``sqrt`` function and so, like it, may be inaccurate up to a relative error of (around) floating-point epsilon. Based on the C99 implementation https://github.com/jjgreen/cathetus """ if isnan(h): return nan if isinf(h): if isinf(a): return nan else: # Deliberately includes the case when isnan(a), because the # C99 standard mandates that hypot(inf, nan) == inf return inf h = fabs(h) a = fabs(a) if h < a: return nan # Thanks to floating-point precision issues when performing multiple # operations on extremely large or small values, we may rarely calculate # a side length that is longer than the hypotenuse. This is clearly an # error, so we clip to the hypotenuse as the best available estimate. if h > sqrt(float_info.max): if h > float_info.max / 2: b = sqrt(h - a) * sqrt(h / 2 + a / 2) * sqrt(2) else: b = sqrt(h - a) * sqrt(h + a) elif h < sqrt(float_info.min): b = sqrt(h - a) * sqrt(h + a) else: b = sqrt((h - a) * (h + a)) return min(b, h)