Class DoubleElementaryModMath

java.lang.Object
org.apfloat.internal.DoubleElementaryModMath
Direct Known Subclasses:
DoubleModMath

public class DoubleElementaryModMath extends Object
Elementary modulo arithmetic functions for double data. Note that although a floating-point data type is used, the data will always be integers.

Modular addition and subtraction are trivial, when the modulus is less than 252 and overflow can be detected easily.

Modular multiplication is more complicated, and since it is usually the single most time consuming operation in the whole program execution, the very core of the Number Theoretic Transform (NTT), it should be carefully optimized.

The algorithm for multiplying two doubles containing an integer and taking the remainder is not entirely obvious. The basic problem is to get the full 104-bit result of multiplying two 52-bit integers. This can basically be done in two parts: by multiplying two longs, the lowest 64 bits can be acquired easily. Multiplying the doubles as floating-point numbers and scaling properly, the highest (roughly) 52 bits of the result can be acquired.

The first observation is that since the modulus is practically constant, it should be more efficient to calculate (once) the inverse of the modulus, and then subsequently multiply by the inverse of the modulus instead of dividing by it.

The second observation is that to get the remainder of the division, we don't necessarily need the actual result of the division (we just want the remainder). So, we should discard the topmost 52 bits of the full 104-bit result whenever possible, to save a few operations.

The basic approach is to get an approximation of a * b / modulus (using floating-point operands, that is doubles). The approximation should be within +1 or -1 of the correct result. Then calculate a * b - approximateDivision * modulus to get the remainder. This calculation must use the lowest 52 (or more, actually 64) bits and is done using longs. As the modulus is less than 252 it is easy to detect the case when the approximate division was off by one (and the remainder is ±modulus off).

To ensure that only one comparison is needed in the check for the approximate division, we use 1 / (modulus + 0.5) as the inverse modulus. In this case the result of the approximate division is always either correct or 1 less.

Version:
1.0
Author:
Mikko Tommila