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#include <boost/multiprecision/mpfr.hpp>
#include <boost/math/special_functions/expint.hpp>
#include "analyze.hpp"
// See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramanujan%E2%80%93Soldner_constant
template<typename T>
T soldner()
{
using boost::math::expint;
using std::log;
using std::abs;
// Initial guess from https://oeis.org/A070769/constant
T x{"1.45136923488338105028396848589202744949303228364801586309300455766242559575451783565953135771108682884"};
T y = expint(log(x));
// If x is the root, then
// li(x(1+μ)) = xμli'(x) + Ο(μ²) ≈ xμ/log(x),
// where μ = ε/2 is the unit roundoff, and we know x ≈ 1.4513.
// Plugging this in gets:
const T expected_residual = 1.9481078669535834*std::numeric_limits<T>::epsilon();
// This should that we cannot expect better than ~2ULPs of accuracy using Newton's method.
// Just a couple extra bits of accuracy should get this recover full precision,
// but variable precision always causes us pain . . .
while (abs(y) > expected_residual) {
// Use li(x) = Ei(ln(x)).
T ln = log(x);
y = expint(ln);
x -= ln*y;
}
return x;
}
int main() {
using boost::multiprecision::mpfr_float;
mpfr_float::default_precision(1000);
using Real = mpfr_float;
Real s = soldner<Real>();
analyze(s, "μ");
}