Wednesday, June 3, 2009

Ex-1.45-todo

(define tolerance 0.00001)
(define (fixed-point f first-guess)
(define (close-enough? v1 v2)
(< (abs (- v1 v2)) tolerance))
(define (try guess)
(let ((next (f guess)))
(if (close-enough? guess next)
next
(try next))))
(try first-guess))
(define (average-damp f)
(lambda (x) (average x (f x))))
(define (average x y)
(/ (+ x y) 2))
(define (fast-expt b n)
(cond ((= n 0) 1)
((even? n) (square (fast-expt b (/ n 2))))
(else (* b (fast-expt b (- n 1))))))
(define (even? n)
(= (remainder n 2) 0))
(define expt fast-expt)

;this needs to go only
(define (nth-root x n)
(fixed-point (repeated
(average-damp
(lambda (y) (/ x (expt y (- n 1)))))
n) 1.0))

above isn't really working for (nth-root 3125 5)..

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