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+/*
+ * IBM Accurate Mathematical Library
+ * Copyright (c) International Business Machines Corp., 2001
+ *
+ * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
+ * it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by
+ * the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or 
+ * (at your option) any later version.
+ * 
+ * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+ * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+ * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
+ * GNU General Public License for more details.
+ *
+ * You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public License
+ * along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
+ * Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA.  
+ */
+/*************************************************************************/
+/* MODULE_NAME:slowpow.c                                                 */
+/*                                                                       */
+/* FUNCTION:slowpow                                                      */
+/*                                                                       */
+/*FILES NEEDED:mpa.h                                                     */ 
+/*             mpa.c mpexp.c mplog.c halfulp.c                           */
+/*                                                                       */
+/* Given two IEEE double machine numbers y,x , routine  computes the     */
+/* correctly  rounded (to nearest) value of x^y. Result calculated  by   */
+/* multiplication (in halfulp.c) or if result isn't accurate enough      */
+/* then routine converts x and y into multi-precision doubles     and    */
+/* calls to mpexp routine                                                */
+/*************************************************************************/
+
+#include "mpa.h"
+
+void mpexp(mp_no *x, mp_no *y, int p);
+void mplog(mp_no *x, mp_no *y, int p);
+double ulog(double);
+double halfulp(double x,double y);
+
+double slowpow(double x, double y, double z) {
+  double res,res1;
+  mp_no mpx, mpy, mpz,mpw,mpp,mpr,mpr1;
+  static const mp_no eps = {-3,1.0,4.0}; 
+  int p;
+
+  res = halfulp(x,y);        /* halfulp() returns -10 or x^y             */
+  if (res >= 0) return res;  /* if result was really computed by halfulp */
+                  /*  else, if result was not really computed by halfulp */ 
+  p = 10;         /*  p=precision   */
+  dbl_mp(x,&mpx,p);                        
+  dbl_mp(y,&mpy,p);
+  dbl_mp(z,&mpz,p);
+  mplog(&mpx, &mpz, p);     /* log(x) = z   */  
+  mul(&mpy,&mpz,&mpw,p);    /*  y * z =w    */
+  mpexp(&mpw, &mpp, p);     /*  e^w =pp     */   
+  add(&mpp,&eps,&mpr,p);    /*  pp+eps =r   */     
+  mp_dbl(&mpr, &res, p);
+  sub(&mpp,&eps,&mpr1,p);   /*  pp -eps =r1 */
+  mp_dbl(&mpr1, &res1, p);  /*  converting into double precision */
+  if (res == res1) return res;
+
+  p = 32;     /* if we get here result wasn't calculated exactly, continue */
+  dbl_mp(x,&mpx,p);                          /* for more exact calculation */
+  dbl_mp(y,&mpy,p);
+  dbl_mp(z,&mpz,p);
+  mplog(&mpx, &mpz, p);   /* log(c)=z  */
+  mul(&mpy,&mpz,&mpw,p);  /* y*z =w    */
+  mpexp(&mpw, &mpp, p);   /* e^w=pp    */
+  mp_dbl(&mpp, &res, p);  /* converting into double precision */
+  return res;
+}