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Tests whether two float/double values are equal, within an acceptable margin of difference.
namespace NMA.Infrastructure.Builders
{
#region Usings
using System;
#endregion
/// <summary>
/// Miscellaneous math utility methods.
/// </summary>
/// <remarks>Please be careful in your use of the methods that take left,
/// right and epsilon. Because of the imprecise nature of floating point
/// calculations, the comparison of <i>epsilon</i> to the difference between
/// <i>left</i> and <i>right</i> is not guaranteed to be precise. For example,
/// if left is 90.0001, right is 90.0000 and epsilon is 0.0001, this method
/// might not necessarily return true. I have seen these values produce a
/// diffence of 0.00010000000000332, which is actually greater than 0.0001.
/// You must take this fuzzyness into account in your client classes and
/// unit tests. This is precisely why we have these epsilon methods in the
/// first place!
/// </remarks>
public class MathUtil
{
/// <summary>
/// Tests whether two float values are equal, within an acceptable margin
/// of difference.
/// </summary>
/// <param name="left">the left side of the comparison</param>
/// <param name="right">the right side of the comparison</param>
/// <param name="epsilon">the margin of difference</param>
/// <returns>true if the values are equal, within <i>epsilon</i>; otherwise, false</returns>
/// <see cref="float.Equals"/>
/// <see href="http://stackoverflow.com/questions/485175"/>
/// <see href="http://www.brainbell.com/tutorials/C++/Comparing_Floating-Point_Numbers_With_Bounded_Accuracy.htm"/>
public static bool FloatEqualTo(float left, float right, float epsilon)
{
return Math.Abs(left - right) <= epsilon;
}
/// <summary>
/// Tests whether a float value is greater than another float value,
/// within an acceptable margin of difference.
/// </summary>
/// <param name="left">the left side of the comparison</param>
/// <param name="right">the right side of the comparison</param>
/// <param name="epsilon">the margin of difference</param>
/// <returns>true if <i>left</i> is greater than <i>right</i>, within <i>epsilon</i>; otherwise, false</returns>
public static bool FloatGreaterThan(float left, float right, float epsilon)
{
// delegate
return FloatGreaterThan(left, right, epsilon, false);
}
/// <summary>
/// Tests whether a float value is greater than or equal to another float
/// value, within an acceptable margin of difference.
/// </summary>
/// <param name="left">the left side of the comparison</param>
/// <param name="right">the right side of the comparison</param>
/// <param name="epsilon">the margin of difference</param>
/// <returns>true if <i>left</i> is greater than or equal to <i>right</i>, within <i>epsilon</i>; otherwise, false</returns>
public static bool FloatGreaterThanOrEqualTo(float left, float right, float epsilon)
{
// delegate
return FloatGreaterThan(left, right, epsilon, true);
}
// impl
private static bool FloatGreaterThan(float left, float right, float epsilon, bool orEqualTo)
{
if (FloatEqualTo(left, right, epsilon))
{
// within epsilon, so considered equal
return orEqualTo;
}
return left > right;
}
/// <summary>
/// Tests whether a float value is less than another float value,
/// within an acceptable margin of difference.
/// </summary>
/// <param name="left">the left side of the comparison</param>
/// <param name="right">the right side of the comparison</param>
/// <param name="epsilon">the margin of difference</param>
/// <returns>true if <i>left</i> is less than <i>right</i>, within <i>epsilon</i>; otherwise, false</returns>
public static bool FloatLessThan(float left, float right, float epsilon)
{
// delegate
return FloatLessThan(left, right, epsilon, false);
}
/// <summary>
/// Tests whether a float value is less than or equal to another float value,
/// within an acceptable margin of difference.
/// </summary>
/// <param name="left">the left side of the comparison</param>
/// <param name="right">the right side of the comparison</param>
/// <param name="epsilon">the margin of difference</param>
/// <returns>true if <i>left</i> is less than or equal to<i>right</i>, within <i>epsilon</i>; otherwise, false</returns>
public static bool FloatLessThanOrEqualTo(float left, float right, float epsilon)
{
// delegate
return FloatLessThan(left, right, epsilon, true);
}
// impl
private static bool FloatLessThan(float left, float right, float epsilon, bool orEqualTo)
{
if (FloatEqualTo(left, right, epsilon))
{
// within epsilon, so considered equal
return orEqualTo;
}
return left < right;
}
/// <summary>
/// Tests whether two double values are equal, within an acceptable margin
/// of difference.
/// </summary>
/// <param name="left">the left side of the comparison</param>
/// <param name="right">the right side of the comparison</param>
/// <param name="epsilon">the margin of difference</param>
/// <returns>true if the values are equal, within <i>epsilon</i>; otherwise, false</returns>
/// <see cref="double.Equals"/>
public static bool DoubleEqualTo(double left, double right, double epsilon)
{
return Math.Abs(left - right) <= epsilon;
}
/// <summary>
/// Tests whether a double value is greater than another double value,
/// within an acceptable margin of difference.
/// </summary>
/// <param name="left">the left side of the comparison</param>
/// <param name="right">the right side of the comparison</param>
/// <param name="epsilon">the margin of difference</param>
/// <returns>true if <i>left</i> is greater than <i>right</i>, within <i>epsilon</i>; otherwise, false</returns>
public static bool DoubleGreaterThan(double left, double right, double epsilon)
{
// delegate
return DoubleGreaterThan(left, right, epsilon, false);
}
/// <summary>
/// Tests whether a double value is greater than or equal to another double
/// value, within an acceptable margin of difference.
/// </summary>
/// <param name="left">the left side of the comparison</param>
/// <param name="right">the right side of the comparison</param>
/// <param name="epsilon">the margin of difference</param>
/// <returns>true if <i>left</i> is greater than or equal to <i>right</i>, within <i>epsilon</i>; otherwise, false</returns>
public static bool DoubleGreaterThanOrEqualTo(double left, double right, double epsilon)
{
// delegate
return DoubleGreaterThan(left, right, epsilon, true);
}
// impl
private static bool DoubleGreaterThan(double left, double right, double epsilon, bool orEqualTo)
{
if (DoubleEqualTo(left, right, epsilon))
{
// within epsilon, so considered equal
return orEqualTo;
}
return left > right;
}
/// <summary>
/// Tests whether a double value is less than another double value,
/// within an acceptable margin of difference.
/// </summary>
/// <param name="left">the left side of the comparison</param>
/// <param name="right">the right side of the comparison</param>
/// <param name="epsilon">the margin of difference</param>
/// <returns>true if <i>left</i> is less than <i>right</i>, within <i>epsilon</i>; otherwise, false</returns>
public static bool DoubleLessThan(double left, double right, double epsilon)
{
// delegate
return DoubleLessThan(left, right, epsilon, false);
}
/// <summary>
/// Tests whether a double value is less than or equal to another double
/// value, within an acceptable margin of difference.
/// </summary>
/// <param name="left">the left side of the comparison</param>
/// <param name="right">the right side of the comparison</param>
/// <param name="epsilon">the margin of difference</param>
/// <returns>true if <i>left</i> is less than or equal to <i>right</i>, within <i>epsilon</i>; otherwise, false</returns>
public static bool DoubleLessThanOrEqualTo(double left, double right, double epsilon)
{
// delegate
return DoubleLessThan(left, right, epsilon, true);
}
// impl
private static bool DoubleLessThan(double left, double right, double epsilon, bool orEqualTo)
{
if (DoubleEqualTo(left, right, epsilon))
{
// within epsilon, so considered equal
return orEqualTo;
}
return left < right;
}
}
}
