/* * numerical integration example, as discussed in textbook: * * compute pi by approximating the area under the curve f(x) = 4 / (1 + x*x) * between 0 and 1. * * sequential version using the same timing function to be used for the * OpenCL version and (single-precision) floats. gives a very bad result * because of the limitations of single-precision. */ #include #include #include /* copied from not-strictly-standard part of math.h */ #define M_PI 3.14159265358979323846 #include #include "timer.h" #define NUM_STEPS 400000000 /* main program */ int main(int argc, char *argv[]) { double start_time, end_time; float x, pi; float sum; float step = 1.0f/(float)NUM_STEPS; /* record start time */ start_time = get_time(); sum = 0.0f; /* do computation */ for (int i=0; i < NUM_STEPS; ++i) { x = (i+0.5f)*step; sum += 4.0f/(1.0f+x*x); } pi = step * sum; /* record end time */ end_time = get_time(); /* print results */ printf("sequential program (single-precision, simple version)\n"); printf("results with %d steps:\n", NUM_STEPS); printf("computed pi = %g (%.15f)\n", pi, pi); printf("difference between computed pi and math.h M_PI = %.15f\n", fabs(pi - M_PI)); printf("time to compute = %g seconds\n", end_time - start_time); return EXIT_SUCCESS; }