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/* * hypot -- sqrt(p*p+q*q), but overflows only if the result does. * See Cleve Moler and Donald Morrison, * ``Replacing Square Roots by Pythagorean Sums,'' * IBM Journal of Research and Development, * Vol. 27, Number 6, pp. 577-581, Nov. 1983 */ #include <u.h>#include <libc.h> doublehypot(double p, double q){	double r, s, pfac; 	if(p < 0)		p = -p;	if(q < 0)		q = -q;	if(p < q) {		r = p;		p = q;		q = r;	}	if(p == 0)		return 0;	pfac = p;	r = q = q/p;	p = 1;	for(;;) {		r *= r;		s = r+4;		if(s == 4)			return p*pfac;		r /= s;		p += 2*r*p;		q *= r;		r = q/p;	}}