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/*
 *  Mathlib : A C Library of Special Functions
 *  Copyright (C) 1998 Ross Ihaka
 *  Copyright (C) 2000 The R Core Team
 *
 *  This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
 *  it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
 *  the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
 *  (at your option) any later version.
 *
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 *  but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
 *  MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
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 *
 *  DESCRIPTION
 *
 *    The density of the Cauchy distribution.
 */

#include "nmath.h"
#include "dpq.h"

double dcauchy(double x, double location, double scale, int give_log)
{
    double y;
#ifdef IEEE_754
    /* NaNs propagated correctly */
    if (ISNAN(x) || ISNAN(location) || ISNAN(scale))
    return x + location + scale;
#endif
    if (scale <= 0) ML_ERR_return_NAN;

    y = (x - location) / scale;
    return give_log ?
    - log(M_PI * scale * (1. + y * y)) :
    1. / (M_PI * scale * (1. + y * y));
}