#!/usr/local/bin/perl # ******************************************************************** # * COPYRIGHT: # * Copyright (c) 2002, International Business Machines Corporation and # * others. All Rights Reserved. # ******************************************************************** my $PLUS_MINUS = "±"; #|#--------------------------------------------------------------------- #|# Format a confidence interval, as given by a Dataset. Output is as #|# as follows: #|# 241.23 - 241.98 => 241.5 +/- 0.3 #|# 241.2 - 243.8 => 242 +/- 1 #|# 211.0 - 241.0 => 226 +/- 15 or? 230 +/- 20 #|# 220.3 - 234.3 => 227 +/- 7 #|# 220.3 - 300.3 => 260 +/- 40 #|# 220.3 - 1000 => 610 +/- 390 or? 600 +/- 400 #|# 0.022 - 0.024 => 0.023 +/- 0.001 #|# 0.022 - 0.032 => 0.027 +/- 0.005 #|# 0.022 - 1.000 => 0.5 +/- 0.5 #|# In other words, take one significant digit of the error value and #|# display the mean to the same precision. #|sub formatDataset { #| my $ds = shift; #| my $lower = $ds->getMean() - $ds->getError(); #| my $upper = $ds->getMean() + $ds->getError(); #| my $scale = 0; #| # Find how many initial digits are the same #| while ($lower < 1 || #| int($lower) == int($upper)) { #| $lower *= 10; #| $upper *= 10; #| $scale++; #| } #| while ($lower >= 10 && #| int($lower) == int($upper)) { #| $lower /= 10; #| $upper /= 10; #| $scale--; #| } #|} #--------------------------------------------------------------------- # Format a number, optionally with a +/- delta, to n significant # digits. # # @param significant digit, a value >= 1 # @param multiplier # @param time in seconds to be formatted # @optional delta in seconds # # @return string of the form "23" or "23 +/- 10". # sub formatNumber { my $sigdig = shift; my $mult = shift; my $a = shift; my $delta = shift; # may be undef my $result = formatSigDig($sigdig, $a*$mult); if (defined($delta)) { my $d = formatSigDig($sigdig, $delta*$mult); # restrict PRECISION of delta to that of main number if ($result =~ /\.(\d+)/) { # TODO make this work for values with all significant # digits to the left of the decimal, e.g., 1234000. # TODO the other thing wrong with this is that it # isn't rounding the $delta properly. Have to put # this logic into formatSigDig(). my $x = length($1); $d =~ s/\.(\d{$x})\d+/.$1/; } $result .= " $PLUS_MINUS " . $d; } $result; } #--------------------------------------------------------------------- # Format a time, optionally with a +/- delta, to n significant # digits. # # @param significant digit, a value >= 1 # @param time in seconds to be formatted # @optional delta in seconds # # @return string of the form "23 ms" or "23 +/- 10 ms". # sub formatSeconds { my $sigdig = shift; my $a = shift; my $delta = shift; # may be undef my @MULT = (1 , 1e3, 1e6, 1e9); my @SUFF = ('s' , 'ms', 'us', 'ns'); # Determine our scale my $i = 0; #always do seconds if the following line is commented out ++$i while ($a*$MULT[$i] < 1 && $i < @MULT); formatNumber($sigdig, $MULT[$i], $a, $delta) . ' ' . $SUFF[$i]; } #--------------------------------------------------------------------- # Format a percentage, optionally with a +/- delta, to n significant # digits. # # @param significant digit, a value >= 1 # @param value to be formatted, as a fraction, e.g. 0.5 for 50% # @optional delta, as a fraction # # @return string of the form "23 %" or "23 +/- 10 %". # sub formatPercent { my $sigdig = shift; my $a = shift; my $delta = shift; # may be undef formatNumber($sigdig, 100, $a, $delta) . '%'; } #--------------------------------------------------------------------- # Format a number to n significant digits without using exponential # notation. # # @param significant digit, a value >= 1 # @param number to be formatted # # @return string of the form "1234" "12.34" or "0.001234". If # number was negative, prefixed by '-'. # sub formatSigDig { my $n = shift() - 1; my $a = shift; local $_ = sprintf("%.${n}e", $a); my $sign = (s/^-//) ? '-' : ''; my $a_e; my $result; if (/^(\d)\.(\d+)e([-+]\d+)$/) { my ($d, $dn, $e) = ($1, $2, $3); $a_e = $e; $d .= $dn; $e++; $d .= '0' while ($e > length($d)); while ($e < 1) { $e++; $d = '0' . $d; } if ($e == length($d)) { $result = $sign . $d; } else { $result = $sign . substr($d, 0, $e) . '.' . substr($d, $e); } } else { die "Can't parse $_"; } $result; } 1; #eof