From d76d30c3bf35781c2f0e883262bc6d0606e7c1c7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: rsiddharth <rsiddharth@ninthfloor.org>
Date: Sat, 16 Apr 2016 23:54:20 +0000
Subject: sicp.org: update ex 1.7 answer.

---
 sicp.org | 48 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------------
 1 file changed, 36 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)

(limited to 'sicp.org')

diff --git a/sicp.org b/sicp.org
index 35880ea..1df2e98 100644
--- a/sicp.org
+++ b/sicp.org
@@ -62,19 +62,43 @@ and will evaluate to ~0~.
     again and again.
 *** 7
 
+The following list show the tolerance value and the corresponding
+square root of 0.1 computed with that tolerance value.
+
+#+BEGIN_EXAMPLE
+((0.001 . 0.316245562280389)
+(1.0e-4 . 0.316245562280389)
+(1.0e-5 . 0.31622776651756745)
+(1.0000000000000002e-6 . 0.31622776651756745)
+(1.0000000000000002e-7 . 0.31622776651756745)
+(1.0000000000000002e-8 . 0.31622776651756745)
+(1.0000000000000003e-9 . 0.31622776651756745)
+1.0000000000000003e-10 . 0.31622776601683794)
+#+END_EXAMPLE
+
+Guile's =sqrt= function says the square root of 0.1 is
+0.31622776601683794:
 #+BEGIN_SRC scheme
-$ guile
 scheme@(guile-user)> (sqrt 0.1)
-$1 =          0.31622776601683794
+$7 = 0.31622776601683794
 #+END_SRC
 
-#+BEGIN_EXAMPLE
-                0.31622776601683794
-0.0001 =        0.316245562280389
-0.00001 =       0.31622776651756745
-0.000001 =      0.31622776651756745
-0.0000001 =     0.31622776651756745
-0.00000001 =    0.31622776651756745
-0.000000001 =   0.31622776651756745
-0.0000000001 =  0.31622776601683794
-#+END_EXAMPLE
+From above, it can be observed that the only when the tolerance value
+for the =good-enough?= function is ~1.0e-10, does the square root of
+0.1 produced by our custom square root function matches the value
+produced by Guile's =sqrt= function.
+
+If the =good-enough?= is changed such that it returns =true= if the
+difference between the present guess and the previous guess is less
+than or equal to 0.001, the sqrt function yields 0.31622776651756745
+for sqrt(0.1).
+
+#+BEGIN_SRC scheme
+scheme@(guile-user)> (sqrt-sicp-alt 0.1)
+$9 = 0.31622776651756745
+#+END_SRC
+
+0.31622776651756745 is more precise than 0.316245562280389 (which is
+the answer returned by the custom sqrt function that uses the ol'
+=good-enough= function) but not as precise as the answer returned by
+the guile's sqrt function.
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