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authorrsiddharth <s@ricketyspace.net>2018-03-03 18:09:53 +0000
committerrsiddharth <s@ricketyspace.net>2018-03-03 18:09:53 +0000
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parentf7e6dbe6ff8fcbb69e27b9a01bd55f90d65c2642 (diff)
net: Add (net ricketyspace sicp one forty).
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+;;;; Under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0
+;;;; International. See
+;;;; <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/>.
+
+(define-module (net ricketyspace sicp one forty)
+ #:export (forty cubic))
+
+(define tolerance 0.000000000001)
+(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 dx 0.00001)
+(define (deriv g)
+ (lambda (x)
+ (/ (- (g (+ x dx)) (g x))
+ dx)))
+
+(define (newton-transform g)
+ (lambda (x)
+ (- x (/ (g x) ((deriv g) x)))))
+
+(define (newtons-method g guess)
+ (fixed-point (newton-transform g) guess))
+
+(define (cubic a b c)
+ (lambda (x)
+ (+ (expt x 3) (* a (expt x 2)) (* b x) c)))
+
+(define (forty a b c)
+ (newtons-method (cubic a b c) 1))