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Approximate distance calculation [message #48704] Sat, 26 August 2017 09:55
mirek is currently offline  mirek
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While working on OSD firmware for my FPV plane, I have started playing with the idea how to calculate fast distance approximation:

int ihypot(int x, int y)
{
	if(x < 0)
		x = -x;
	if(y < 0)
		y = -y;
	if(x < y)
		Swap(x, y);
	if(y < (x >> 2) + (x >> 3))
		return x + (y >> 3) + (y >> 5);
	y -= (x >> 2) + (x >> 5);
	return x + (y >> 1) + (y >> 4);
}


This is approximation of sqrt(x*x + y*y).

- if max(x, y) < 168, absolute error < 4 (this has more to do with integer rounding)
- otherwise, the error is less than 2%

Putting it here so that perhaps it can be googled if somebody is looking for something like it...
 
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