/* * e_logf.c - single precision log function * * Copyright (c) 2009-2018, Arm Limited. * SPDX-License-Identifier: MIT */ /* * Algorithm was once taken from Cody & Waite, but has been munged * out of all recognition by SGT. */ #include <math.h> #include <errno.h> #include "math_private.h" float logf(float X) { int N = 0; int aindex; float a, x, s; unsigned ix = fai(X); if (__builtin_expect((ix - 0x00800000) >= 0x7f800000 - 0x00800000, 0)) { if ((ix << 1) > 0xff000000) /* NaN */ return FLOAT_INFNAN(X); if (ix == 0x7f800000) /* +inf */ return X; if (X < 0) { /* anything negative */ return MATHERR_LOGF_NEG(X); } if (X == 0) { return MATHERR_LOGF_0(X); } /* That leaves denormals. */ N = -23; X *= 0x1p+23F; ix = fai(X); } /* * Separate X into three parts: * - 2^N for some integer N * - a number a of the form (1+k/8) for k=0,...,7 * - a residual which we compute as s = (x-a)/(x+a), for * x=X/2^N. * * We pick the _nearest_ (N,a) pair, so that (x-a) has magnitude * at most 1/16. Hence, we must round things that are just * _below_ a power of two up to the next power of two, so this * isn't as simple as extracting the raw exponent of the FP * number. Instead we must grab the exponent together with the * top few bits of the mantissa, and round (in integers) there. */ { int rounded = ix + 0x00080000; int Nnew = (rounded >> 23) - 127; aindex = (rounded >> 20) & 7; a = fhex(0x3f800000 + (aindex << 20)); N += Nnew; x = fhex(ix - (Nnew << 23)); } if (!N && !aindex) { /* * Use an alternative strategy for very small |x|, which * avoids the 1ULP of relative error introduced in the * computation of s. If our nearest (N,a) pair is N=0,a=1, * that means we have -1/32 < x-a < 1/16, on which interval * the ordinary series for log(1+z) (setting z-x-a) will * converge adequately fast; so we can simply find an * approximation to log(1+z)/z good on that interval and * scale it by z on the way out. * * Coefficients generated by the command ./auxiliary/remez.jl --variable=z --suffix=f -- '-1/BigFloat(32)' '+1/BigFloat(16)' 3 0 '(log1p(x)-x)/x^2' */ float z = x - 1.0f; float p = z*z * ( -4.999999767382730053173434595877399055021398381370452534949864039404089549132551e-01f+z*(3.333416379155995401749506866323446447523793085809161350343357014272193712456391e-01f+z*(-2.501299948811686421962724839011563450757435183422532362736159418564644404218257e-01f+z*(1.903576945606738444146078468935429697455230136403008172485495359631510244557255e-01f))) ); return z + p; } /* * Now we have N, a and x correct, so that |x-a| <= 1/16. * Compute s. * * (Since |x+a| >= 2, this means that |s| will be at most 1/32.) */ s = (x - a) / (x + a); /* * The point of computing s = (x-a)/(x+a) was that this makes x * equal to a * (1+s)/(1-s). So we can now compute log(x) by * means of computing log((1+s)/(1-s)) (which has a more * efficiently converging series), and adding log(a) which we * obtain from a lookup table. * * So our full answer to log(X) is now formed by adding together * N*log(2) + log(a) + log((1+s)/(1-s)). * * Now log((1+s)/(1-s)) has the exact Taylor series * * 2s + 2s^3/3 + 2s^5/5 + ... * * and what we do is to compute all but the first term of that * as a polynomial approximation in s^2, then add on the first * term - and all the other bits and pieces above - in * precision-and-a-half so as to keep the total error down. */ { float s2 = s*s; /* * We want a polynomial L(s^2) such that * * 2s + s^3*L(s^2) = log((1+s)/(1-s)) * * => L(s^2) = (log((1+s)/(1-s)) - 2s) / s^3 * * => L(z) = (log((1+sqrt(z))/(1-sqrt(z))) - 2*sqrt(z)) / sqrt(z)^3 * * The required range of the polynomial is only [0,1/32^2]. * * Our accuracy requirement for the polynomial approximation * is that we don't want to introduce any error more than * about 2^-23 times the _top_ bit of s. But the value of * the polynomial has magnitude about s^3; and since |s| < * 2^-5, this gives us |s^3/s| < 2^-10. In other words, * our approximation only needs to be accurate to 13 bits or * so before its error is lost in the noise when we add it * to everything else. * * Coefficients generated by the command ./auxiliary/remez.jl --variable=s2 --suffix=f -- '0' '1/BigFloat(32^2)' 1 0 '(abs(x) < 1e-20 ? BigFloat(2)/3 + 2*x/5 + 2*x^2/7 + 2*x^3/9 : (log((1+sqrt(x))/(1-sqrt(x)))-2*sqrt(x))/sqrt(x^3))' */ float p = s * s2 * ( 6.666666325680271091157649745099739739798210281016897722498744752867165138320995e-01f+s2*(4.002792299542401431889592846825025487338520940900492146195427243856292349188402e-01f) ); static const float log2hi = 0x1.62ep-1F, log2lo = 0x1.0bfbe8p-15F; static const float logahi[8] = { 0x0p+0F, 0x1.e26p-4F, 0x1.c8ep-3F, 0x1.46p-2F, 0x1.9f2p-2F, 0x1.f12p-2F, 0x1.1e8p-1F, 0x1.41cp-1F }; static const float logalo[8] = { 0x0p+0F, 0x1.076e2ap-16F, 0x1.f7c79ap-15F, 0x1.8bc21cp-14F, 0x1.23eccp-14F, 0x1.1ebf5ep-15F, 0x1.7d79c2p-15F, 0x1.8fe846p-13F }; return (N*log2hi + logahi[aindex]) + (2.0f*s + (N*log2lo + logalo[aindex] + p)); } }