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package org.apache.commons.rng.sampling.distribution;

import org.apache.commons.rng.UniformRandomProvider;

/**
 * <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ziggurat_algorithm">
 * Marsaglia and Tsang "Ziggurat" method</a> for sampling from a Gaussian
 * distribution with mean 0 and standard deviation 1.
 *
 * The algorithm is explained in this
 * <a href="http://www.jstatsoft.org/article/view/v005i08/ziggurat.pdf">paper</a>
 * and this implementation has been adapted from the C code provided therein.
 *
 * @since 1.1
 */
public class ZigguratNormalizedGaussianSampler extends SamplerBase implements NormalizedGaussianSampler {
    /** Start of tail. */
    private static final double R = 3.442619855899;
    /** Inverse of R. */
    private static final double ONE_OVER_R = 1 / R;
    /** Rectangle area. */
    private static final double V = 9.91256303526217e-3;
    /** 2^63 */
    private static final double MAX = Math.pow(2, 63);
    /** 2^-63 */
    private static final double ONE_OVER_MAX = 1d / MAX;
    /** Number of entries. */
    private static final int LEN = 128;
    /** Index of last entry. */
    private static final int LAST = LEN - 1;
    /** Auxiliary table. */
    private static final long[] K = new long[LEN];
    /** Auxiliary table. */
    private static final double[] W = new double[LEN];
    /** Auxiliary table. */
    private static final double[] F = new double[LEN];

    static {
        // Filling the tables.

        double d = R;
        double t = d;
        double fd = gauss(d);
        final double q = V / fd;

        K[0] = (long) ((d / q) * MAX);
        K[1] = 0;

        W[0] = q * ONE_OVER_MAX;
        W[LAST] = d * ONE_OVER_MAX;

        F[0] = 1;
        F[LAST] = fd;

        for (int i = LAST - 1; i >= 1; i--) {
            d = Math.sqrt(-2 * Math.log(V / d + fd));
            fd = gauss(d);

            K[i + 1] = (long) ((d / t) * MAX);
            t = d;

            F[i] = fd;

            W[i] = d * ONE_OVER_MAX;
        }
    }

    /**
     * @param rng Generator of uniformly distributed random numbers.
     */
    public ZigguratNormalizedGaussianSampler(UniformRandomProvider rng) {
        super(rng);
    }

    /** {@inheritDoc} */
    @Override
    public double sample() {
        final long j = nextLong();
        final int i = (int) (j & LAST);
        if (Math.abs(j) < K[i]) {
            return j * W[i];
        } else {
            return fix(j, i);
        }
    }

    /** {@inheritDoc} */
    @Override
    public String toString() {
        return "Ziggurat normalized Gaussian deviate [" + super.toString() + "]";
    }

    /**
     * Gets the value from the tail of the distribution.
     *
     * @param hz Start random integer.
     * @param iz Index of cell corresponding to {@code hz}.
     * @return the requested random value.
     */
    private double fix(long hz, int iz) {
        double x;
        double y;

        while (true) {
            x = hz * W[iz];
            if (iz == 0) {
                // Base strip.
                do {
                    y = -Math.log(nextDouble());
                    x = -Math.log(nextDouble()) * ONE_OVER_R;
                } while (y + y < x * x);

                final double out = R + x;
                return hz > 0 ? out : -out;
            } else {
                // Wedge of other strips.
                if (F[iz] + nextDouble() * (F[iz - 1] - F[iz]) < gauss(x)) {
                    return x;
                } else {
                    final long hzNew = nextLong();
                    final int izNew = (int) (hzNew & LAST);
                    if (Math.abs(hzNew) < K[izNew]) {
                        return hzNew * W[izNew];
                    }
                }
            }
        }
    }

    /**
     * @param x Argument.
     * @return \( e^{-\frac{x^2}{2}} \)
     */
    private static double gauss(double x) {
        return Math.exp(-0.5 * x * x);
    }
}