Efficient exact arithmetic for computational geometry

  • Authors:
  • Steven Fortune;Christopher J. Van Wyk

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-

  • Venue:
  • SCG '93 Proceedings of the ninth annual symposium on Computational geometry
  • Year:
  • 1993

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Abstract

We experiment with exact integer arithmetic to implement primitives for geometric algorithms. Naive use of exact arithmetic—either modular or multiprecision integer—increases execution time dramatically over the use of floating-point arithmetic. By combining tuned multiprecision integer arithmetic and a floating-point filter based on interval analysis, we can obtain the effect of exact integer arithmetic at a cost close to that of floating-point arithmetic. We describe an experimental expression compiler that conveniently packages our techniques.