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  1. Commons Geometry
  2. GEOMETRY-50

Overflow in Vector norm and distance

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    • Bug
    • Status: Closed
    • Major
    • Resolution: Fixed
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    Description

      In Euclidean Vector classes (Vector2D, Vector3D), norm() and distance() rely on Math.sqrt(), which can overflow if the components of the vectors are large. Instead, they should rely on SafeNorm.

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          Task - A task that needs to be done. NUMBERS-143 Investigate Math.hypot for computing the absolute of a complex number

          • Minor - Minor loss of function, or other problem where easy workaround is present.
          • Closed
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          Web Link GitHub Pull Request #81

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              balsingh Baljit Singh
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