Some tweaks to floating point utility methods

- Implement NearlyEqual
- NearZero and TooFar take const Double&
- NearZero and NearlyEqual are templated to take Double& and Double&& (and anything else that can be subtracted and/or passed into std::fabs.
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Eryn Wells 2014-08-03 12:22:30 -07:00
parent 8d5dfe5154
commit ecb15470ac

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@ -39,27 +39,35 @@ const Double MAX_DISTANCE = 1.0e7;
* @param [in] value The value to check
* @returns `true` if the value is close enough to zero
*/
template <typename T>
inline bool
NearZero(Double& value)
NearZero(const T value)
{
return std::fabs(value) < EPSILON;
}
/**
* Same as NearZero, but for temporary values.
* Determine if two values are "close enough" to be considered equal. Subtracts
* one from the other and checks if the result is near zero.
*
* @see NearZero
*
* @param [in] left The left parameter
* @param [in] right The right parameter
* @returns `true` if the values are close enough to be equal
*/
template <typename T>
inline bool
NearZero(Double&& value)
NearlyEqual(const T left,
const T right)
{
return std::fabs(value) < EPSILON;
return NearZero(left - right);
}
inline bool
TooFar(Double& value)
TooFar(const Double& value)
{
return value > MAX_DISTANCE;
}