The router began as a port of FreeRouting and has grown its own engine
(negotiated congestion, tree nets, exact checks, axis escapes), and
'freeroute' was one letter from the project it no longer follows. The
package, module and command are now rpmroute; the freeroute command stays
as an alias, and the RPMROUTE / RPMROUTE_ORACLE_JAVA variables fall back
to the old FREEROUTE names. Version 2026.10.07. Routing is unchanged: a
PCBench board routes to a byte-identical session either way.
Ports the point/vector foundation of geometry/planar: Side and Signum
(three-valued signs), Limits, FloatPoint (approximate), and the exact
IntPoint/IntVector plus projective RationalPoint/RationalVector.
Arithmetic model per type is documented in each module. The key
simplification over the Java source: Python's unbounded int makes the
exact orientation determinants and rational (x,y,z) coordinates trivial,
so side_of is kept exact (upstream uses a double for speed) and no
BigInteger or CRIT_INT overflow promotion is needed. Rational points use
the projective triple with z=0 denoting the point at infinity.
Tests cover collinearity, determinants beyond Java long range, rational
equality/reduction, and integer/rational promotion.
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