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+/*    This file is part of the Gudhi hiLibrary. The Gudhi library
+ *    (Geometric Understanding in Higher Dimensions) is a generic C++
+ *    library for computational topology.
+ *
+ *    Author(s):       Pawel Dlotko
+ *
+ *    Copyright (C) 2016  INRIA (France)
+ *
+ *    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 3 of the License, or
+ *    (at your option) any later version.
+ *
+ *    This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+ *    but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+ *    MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
+ *    GNU General Public License for more details.
+ *
+ *    You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+ *    along with this program.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+ */
+
+#ifndef PERSISTENCE_INTERVALS_WITH_DISTANCES_H_
+#define PERSISTENCE_INTERVALS_WITH_DISTANCES_H_
+
+#include <gudhi/Persistence_intervals.h>
+#include <gudhi/Bottleneck.h>
+
+#include <limits>
+
+namespace Gudhi {
+namespace Persistence_representations {
+
+class Persistence_intervals_with_distances : public Persistence_intervals {
+ public:
+  using Persistence_intervals::Persistence_intervals;
+
+  /**
+   *Computations of distance from the current persistnce diagram to the persistence diagram given as a parameter of this
+   *function.
+   *The last but one parameter, power, is here in case we would like to compute p=th Wasserstein distance. At the
+   *moment, this method only implement Bottleneck distance,
+   * which is infinity Wasserstein distance. Therefore any power which is not the default std::numeric_limits< double
+   *>::max() will be ignored and an
+   * exception will be thrown.
+   * The last parameter, tolerance, it is an additiv error of the approimation, set by default to zero.
+  **/
+  double distance(const Persistence_intervals_with_distances& second, double power = std::numeric_limits<double>::max(),
+                  double tolerance = (std::numeric_limits<double>::min)()) const {
+    if (power >= std::numeric_limits<double>::max()) {
+      return Gudhi::persistence_diagram::bottleneck_distance(this->intervals, second.intervals, tolerance);
+    } else {
+      std::cerr << "At the moment Gudhi do not support Wasserstein distances. We only support Bottleneck distance."
+                << std::endl;
+      throw "At the moment Gudhi do not support Wasserstein distances. We only support Bottleneck distance.";
+    }
+  }
+};
+
+}  // namespace Persistence_representations
+}  // namespace Gudhi
+
+#endif  // PERSISTENCE_INTERVALS_WITH_DISTANCES_H_