Swift Basic Math Tools

Some basic tools for doing math in Swift

Wrapping

This allows any number to be wrapped within a range of numbers.

For example, with a range of floats from 3..<5, here’s how the numbers from -10 to 10 would wrap:

The syntax is really simple:

value.wrapped(within: range)

So for the above example, you might do:

value.wrapped(within: 3..<5)

You can also use the global function if that makes more sense for your software:

wrap(min: 3, value: value, max: 5)

Tolerable Equality

This allows you to compare two values for equality, within a certain tolerance!

This is done with a protocol that is already applied to all the language’s built-in signed numbers, but which can be applied to anything.

Let’s look at this classic example:

let shouldBeOne = 0.1 + 0.1 + 0.1 + 0.1 + 0.1 + 0.1 + 0.1 + 0.1 + 0.1 + 0.1

print(shouldBeOne, shouldBeOne == 1)
// prints 0.9999999999999999 false

With this package, you can use the ~== operator to easily overcome this problem

print(shouldBeOne ~== 1)
// prints true

You can also customize this behavior as needed:

print(1_000_000.equals(1_000_100, tolerance: 1_000))
// prints true

Feel free to check out the tests for more examples!

Clamps

This includes a few functions which make it easy to clamp a value between two others. Like Swift’s min and max, these work for any Comparable type.

Whichever you use simply depends on your preference or needs; they all act identically:

print(clamp(min: 2, value:  0, max: 7)) // Prints 2
print(clamp(min: 2, value:  5, max: 7)) // Prints 5
print(clamp(min: 2, value: 99, max: 7)) // Prints 7

print( 0.clamping(min: 2, max: 7)) // Prints 2
print( 5.clamping(min: 2, max: 7)) // Prints 5
print(99.clamping(min: 2, max: 7)) // Prints 7

print( 0.clamping(within: 2...7)) // Prints 2
print( 5.clamping(within: 2...7)) // Prints 5
print(99.clamping(within: 2...7)) // Prints 7