;;;; Under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 ;;;; International. See ;;;; . (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))