Christian Heimes <li...@cheimes.de> wrote:
> Pierre-Alain Dorange schrieb:
> > I don't find any sign(x) function in the math library (return the sign
> > of the value).
> > I've read that math module is a wrapper to C math lib and that C math
> > lib has not sign(), so...
>
> Starting with Python 2.6 the math and cmath modules have a copysign
> function.
I'm using 2.5.2 at that time, but copysign() is fine.
with :
s=copysign(1.0,x)
it return the sign (-1.0, 0.0, +1.0)
> > I've implement my own sign function of course (it's easy) but a standard
> > one in math would be better and could be faster.
>
> Sure? :)
I was...
> Are you aware that the IEEE 754 standard makes a difference
> between the floats +0.0 and -0.0?
>
> from math import atan2
> def sign(x):
> if x > 0 or (x == 0 and atan2(x, -1.) > 0.):
> return 1
> else:
> return -1
Thanks
As my need is for a game and that i do not have IEEE real concern, i
would simply using my simple function (but not as accurate) :
def sign(x):
if x==0.0:
return 0.0
elif x>0.0:
return 1.0
else:
return -1.0
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