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/*
* Matt McCutchen's Big Integer Library
*/

/*
* Milan Tomic had trouble compiling this file on Microsoft
* Visual C++ 6 because, in the libraries that come with
* Visual C++ 6, the `std::string::push_back' method apparently
* does not exist.  To get around the problem, I rewrote
* `BigUnsignedInABase::operator std::string' (at the bottom
* of this file) so it doesn't use `push_back'.
*/

#include "BigUnsignedInABase.hh"

namespace {
	unsigned int bitLen(unsigned int x) {
		unsigned int len = 0;
		while (x > 0) {
			x >>= 1;
			len++;
		}
		return len;
	}
	unsigned int ceilingDiv(unsigned int a, unsigned int b) {
		return (a + b - 1) / b;
	}
}

BigUnsignedInABase::BigUnsignedInABase(const BigUnsigned &x, Base base) {

	// Check the base
	if (base < 2)
		throw "BigUnsignedInABase(BigUnsigned, Base): The base must be at least 2";
	// Save the base.
	// This pattern is seldom seen in C++, but the analogous ``this.'' is common in Java.
	this->base = base;
	
	// Get an upper bound on how much space we need
	int maxBitLenOfX = x.getLength() * BigUnsigned::N;
	int minBitsPerDigit = bitLen(base) - 1;
	int maxDigitLenOfX = ceilingDiv(maxBitLenOfX, minBitsPerDigit);
	len = maxDigitLenOfX; // Another change to comply with `staying in bounds'; see `BigUnsigned::divideWithRemainder'.
	allocate(len); // Get the space
	
	BigUnsigned x2(x), buBase(base);
	Index digitNum = 0;
	
	while (!x2.isZero()) {
		// Get last digit.  This is like `lastDigit = x2 % buBase, x2 /= buBase'.
		BigUnsigned lastDigit(x2);
		lastDigit.divideWithRemainder(buBase, x2);
		// Save the digit.
		blk[digitNum] = Digit(lastDigit); // invokes `BigUnsigned ==> unsigned short' converter
		// Move on.  We can't run out of room: we figured it out above.
		digitNum++;
	}
	
	// Save the actual length.
	len = digitNum;
}

BigUnsignedInABase::operator BigUnsigned() const {
	BigUnsigned ans(0), buBase(base), temp;
	Index digitNum = len;
	while (digitNum > 0) {
		digitNum--;
		temp.multiply(ans, buBase);
		ans.add(temp, BigUnsigned(blk[digitNum]));
	}
	return ans;
}

BigUnsignedInABase::BigUnsignedInABase(const std::string &s, Base base) {
	// Check the base.
	if (base > 36)
		throw "BigUnsignedInABase(std::string, Base): The default string conversion routines use the symbol set 0-9, A-Z and therefore support only up to base 36.  You tried a conversion with a base over 36; write your own string conversion routine.";
	// Save the base.
	// This pattern is seldom seen in C++, but the analogous ``this.'' is common in Java.
	this->base = base;
	
	// `s.length()' is a `size_t', while `len' is a `NumberlikeArray::Index',
	// also known as an `unsigned int'.  Some compilers warn without this cast.
	len = Index(s.length());
	allocate(len);
	
	Index digitNum, symbolNumInString;
	for (digitNum = 0; digitNum < len; digitNum++) {
		symbolNumInString = len - 1 - digitNum;
		char theSymbol = s[symbolNumInString];
		if (theSymbol >= '0' && theSymbol <= '9')
			blk[digitNum] = theSymbol - '0';
		else if (theSymbol >= 'A' && theSymbol <= 'Z')
			blk[digitNum] = theSymbol - 'A' + 10;
		else if (theSymbol >= 'a' && theSymbol <= 'z')
			blk[digitNum] = theSymbol - 'a' + 10;
		else
			throw "BigUnsignedInABase(std::string, Base): Bad symbol in input.  Only 0-9, A-Z, a-z are accepted.";
	}
	zapLeadingZeros();
}

BigUnsignedInABase::operator std::string() const {
	if (base > 36)
		throw "BigUnsignedInABase ==> std::string: The default string conversion routines use the symbol set 0-9, A-Z and therefore support only up to base 36.  You tried a conversion with a base over 36; write your own string conversion routine.";
	if (len == 0)
		return std::string("0");
	char *s = new char[len + 1];
	s[len] = '\0';
	Index digitNum, symbolNumInString;
	for (symbolNumInString = 0; symbolNumInString < len; symbolNumInString++) {
		digitNum = len - 1 - symbolNumInString;
		Digit theDigit = blk[digitNum];
		if (theDigit < 10)
			s[symbolNumInString] = char('0' + theDigit);
		else
			s[symbolNumInString] = char('A' + theDigit - 10);
	}
	std::string s2(s);
	// 2006.05.03: This needs to be [] to match the allocation
	delete [] s;
	return s2;
}