/* Copyright � 1999 CERN - European Organization for Nuclear Research. Permission to use, copy, modify, distribute and sell this software and its documentation for any purpose is hereby granted without fee, provided that the above copyright notice appear in all copies and that both that copyright notice and this permission notice appear in supporting documentation. CERN makes no representations about the suitability of this software for any purpose. It is provided "as is" without expressed or implied warranty. */ package cern.jet.stat.quantile; /** * Holds some utility methods shared by different quantile finding implementations. */ class Utils { /** * Makes this class non instantiable, but still let's others inherit from it. */ protected Utils() { throw new RuntimeException("Non instantiable"); } /** * Similar to Math.ceil(value), but adjusts small numerical rounding errors +- epsilon. */ public static long epsilonCeiling(double value) { double epsilon = 0.0000001; return (long) Math.ceil(value - epsilon); } }