poly_roots.h

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#pragma once

#include <cstdlib>

namespace mrpt::math
{
/** @addtogroup  polynomial_roots Find polynomial roots (`#include
 * <mrpt/math/poly_roots.h>`)
  *  \ingroup mrpt_math_grp
  * @{ */

/** Solves cubic equation `x^3 + a*x^2 + b*x + c = 0`. Returns the number of
 * real roots `N`<=3.
  * The roots are returned in the first entries of `x`, i.e. `x[0]` if N=1,
 * `x[0]` and `x[1]` if N=2, etc.
  * \param x array of size 3
  * \note Based on `poly34.h`, by Khashin S.I.
 * http://math.ivanovo.ac.ru/dalgebra/Khashin/index.html - khash2 (at) gmail.com
 */
int solve_poly3(double* x, double a, double b, double c) noexcept;

/** Solves quartic equation `x^4 + a*x^3 + b*x^2 + c*x + d = 0` by Dekart-Euler
 * method.
  * Returns the number of real roots `N`<=4:
  * - return 4: 4 real roots x[0], x[1], x[2], x[3], possible multiple roots
  * - return 2: 2 real roots x[0], x[1] and complex x[2]+-i*x[3],
  * - return 0: two pair of complex roots: x[0]+-i*x[1],  x[2]+-i*x[3],
  *
  * The roots are returned in the first entries of `x`, i.e. `x[0]` if N=1,
 * `x[0]` and `x[1]` if N=2, etc.
  * \param x array of size 4
  * \note Based on `poly34.h`, by Khashin S.I.
 * http://math.ivanovo.ac.ru/dalgebra/Khashin/index.html - khash2 (at) gmail.com
 */
int solve_poly4(double* x, double a, double b, double c, double d) noexcept;

/** Solves equation `x^5 + a*x^4 + b*x^3 + c*x^2 + d*x + e = 0`.
  * Returns the number of real roots `N`<=5.
  * The roots are returned in the first entries of `x`, i.e. `x[0]` if N=1,
 * `x[0]` and `x[1]` if N=2, etc.
  * \param x array of size 5
  * \note Based on `poly34.h`, by Khashin S.I.
 * http://math.ivanovo.ac.ru/dalgebra/Khashin/index.html - khash2 (at) gmail.com
 */
int solve_poly5(
    double* x, double a, double b, double c, double d, double e) noexcept;

/** Solve equation x^4 + b*x^2 + d = 0 */
int solve_poly4Bi(double* x, double b, double d) noexcept;
/** Solve equation x^4 + b*x^2 + c*x + d = 0 */
int solve_poly4De(double* x, double b, double c, double d) noexcept;

/** Solves equation `a*x^2 + b*x + c = 0`.
  * Returns the number of real roots: either 0 or 2; or 1 if a=0 (in this case
 * the root is in r1).
  * r1, r2 are the roots. (r1<=r2)
  * \note Based on `poly34.h`, by Khashin S.I.
 * http://math.ivanovo.ac.ru/dalgebra/Khashin/index.html - khash2 (at) gmail.com
 */
int solve_poly2(double a, double b, double c, double& r1, double& r2) noexcept;

/** @} */

}