in reply to Re^3: Exponential Function Programming
in thread Exponential Function Programming
But such a demonstrations wasn't necessary for me since I had finished writing the following from scratch before you posted your solution. (I didn't post it since I didn't want to do the OP's homework for him.)
sub ikegami_exp { my ($x) = @_; my $last = 0; my $result = 1; my $acc = 1; for (my $n = 1; abs($result-$last)>0; $n++) { $last = $result; $acc *= $x/$n; $result += $acc; } return $result; } for (1, 0.1, 10, 3.14, 0.1234, 100) { printf("%.16e: exp() = %.16e ikegami_exp() = %.16e\n", $_, exp($_), ikegami_exp($_), ); }
The only difference was the terminating condition, so naturally, that's what interested me :) Mine goes into an infinite loop if you try to find ikegami_exp(1000), but that's easily fixed by replacing abs($result-$last)>0 with $result != $last.
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Re^5: Exponential Function Programming
by pajout (Curate) on Nov 23, 2007 at 19:05 UTC |
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