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# Basic Geometry Computations
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## Library of basic geometric computations for C
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[Версия на русском языке / Russian version](README.md)
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[Documentation](docs/intro-eng.md)
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Programming language: C (C99)
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Version: 0.2.0-dev
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License: Apache-2.0
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The main goals of development of the library were:
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1. Performance
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2. Functionality
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3. Versatility
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Performance was the main goal of making of the library. That fact affected
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the implementation of the library.
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For example, the main way to return data structures as a function result
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was chosen to be returning via a parameter, which avoids redundant copying
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of data through the call stack.
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Also the majority of functions were made as inline functions. That allows
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a compiller to replace a call of some function onto the body of that
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function.
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The library uses two types of floating point numbers: **float** и **double**
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(**binary32** and **binary64** types of the **IEEE 754** standard). That
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affected the implementation of the library too.
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The library is implicitly divided into two halves: one half is for data and
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functions of **float** type and another one is for date of th **double** type.
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And there are several bridges connect both of the halves. Those bridges are
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the functions of the type conversion.
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But there are just few functions which use data of different types (**float**
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and **double** at the same time) for the computations.
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