// Copyright (c) 2008 Max-Planck-Institute Saarbruecken (Germany)
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// $URL: svn+ssh://afabri@scm.gforge.inria.fr/svn/cgal/trunk/Polynomial/include/CGAL/Polynomial/polynomial_functions.h $
// $Id: polynomial_functions.h 46402 2008-10-21 16:20:05Z eric $
//
//
// Author(s)     : Michael Hemmer 
// ============================================================================

// TODO: The comments are all original EXACUS comments and aren't adapted. So
//         they may be wrong now.

#ifndef CGAL_POLYNOMIAL_HGDELTA_UPDATE_H
#define CGAL_POLYNOMIAL_HGDELTA_UPDATE_H

CGAL_BEGIN_NAMESPACE

// This subroutine has been retained here for use in both new files.
namespace CGALi {
    template <class NT> inline
    void hgdelta_update(NT& h, const NT& g, int delta) {
        typename Algebraic_structure_traits<NT>::Integral_division idiv;
    
        // compute h = h^(1-delta) * g^delta
        switch (delta) {
        case 0:
            // h = h;
            break;
        case 1:
            h = g;
            break;
        default:
            h = idiv(CGAL::ipower(g, delta), CGAL::ipower(h, delta-1));
            break;
        }
    }
} // namespace CGALi

CGAL_END_NAMESPACE

#endif // CGAL_POLYNOMIAL_HGDELTA_UPDATE_H
