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QPFloat (GPL 3.0)
For high-precision mathematics, the Quadruple-Precision Floating Point library (QPFloat) emulates the IEEE 754 2008 binary128 on x86, and x64 (and probably any other little-endian platform) using integer arithmetic and bit manipulation. It contains a native C++ and assembler implementation, and a .Net C++/CLI implementation.
Features
Much effort has been put into supporting a full feature set, including optimized transcendental functions and string conversion to full precision.
Standard operations
- addition, subtraction, multiplication, division
- Min, Max, Abs, Ceiling, Floor, Round, Truncate, Fraction
- ToString and FromString
- Cast operators to and from native numeric data types
- IsZero
- IsNaN
- IsInfinite
- IsSigned
- IsSubNormal
Transcendental functions
- natural logarithm (Ln), arbitrary-base logarithm (Log)
- exponentiation (Exp)
- power function (Pow)
- Sin, Cos, Tan
- ASin, ACos, ATan, ATan2
Miscellaneous features
- Fast! Optimized low level bit manipulation
- Hard coded constant Pi and E to full quadruple precision
- Implemented on little-endian architecture, may or may not work on big-endian???
- Strictly follows IEEE specifications to the extent availabile on Wikipedia.
- Multiple guard bits
- Arithmetic on sub-normals is fully supported.
- Inf, -Inf, and NaN are fully supported.
- round-to-even
- emulates FPU exceptions with enable/disable flags (default: all disabled)
Using
VB.Net, C# users, and C++/CLI
- Add a reference to Release/QPFloat.dll (x64/Release/QPFloat.dll for x64)
- Create new variables using System.Quadruple
C++ users
- Add a reference to QPFloat.dll (x64/Release/QPFloat.dll for x64)
- include "__float128.h"
- create new variables using __float128
Compiling
Microsoft Visual C++
- This code base can be compiled with or without /clr (Managed C++) to the compiler.
- If /clr IS used, then this library can be used by C#, VB.Net, and C++/CLI via the type System.Quadruple.
- If /clr IS NOT used, #ifdef _MANAGED has been used to automatically exclude the managed implementation.
- Since extension methods can't be used to add static functions to System.Math, Operations like Abs, Sin, etc are static methods of Quadruple.
- __float128 is the unmanaged (faster) implementation, which is still present even when /clr is used.
Other compilers
- This code uses #ifdef to remove Microsoft specific functionality automatically (#ifdef _MANAGED)
- Though I've not tried, it should be relatively easy to build using other compilers.
- following existing conventions, __float128 is the type proffered by this library.