;;;; Under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 ;;;; International. See ;;;; . (define-module (net ricketyspace sicp two thirteen) #:use-module (net ricketyspace sicp two twelve) #:export (mul-tol-percent)) (define (mul-tol-percent intv-a intv-b) "Returns approx. percentage tolerance of INT-A * INTV-B. Assumes all numbers in INTV-A and INTV-B are positive. Say 2⨦.10 and 7⨦.20 are the two intervals. The lower and upper bounds of the product of these interavals: (2 - 0.10) * (7 - 0.20) ; Lower bound (2 - 0.10) * (7 - 0.20) ; Upper bound Lower bound -> (2 - 0.10) * (7 - 0.20) -> (2 * 7) - (2 * 0.20) - (7 * 0.10) + (0.10 * 0.20) X Y Z -> (2 * 7) - (X + Y - Z) -> (2 * 7) - (X + Y) ; ignore Z as it is small. Upper bound -> (2 + 0.10) * (7 + 0.20) -> (2 * 7) + (2 * 0.20) + (7 * 0.10) + (0.10 * 0.20) X Y Z -> (2 * 7) - (X + Y + Z) -> (2 * 7) - (X + Y) ; ignore Z as it is small. => Percentage tolerance is ⨦ (X + Y)" (let* ((ca (center intv-a)) (pa (percent intv-a)) (cb (center intv-b)) (pb (percent intv-b)) (x (* ca pb)) (y (* cb pa))) (/ (+ x y) 100.0))) ;;; Guile REPL ;;; scheme@(guile-user)> ,re (net ricketyspace sicp two thirteen) ;;; scheme@(guile-user)> (mul-tol-percent (make-center-percent 2 10) (make-center-percent 7 20)) ;;; $20 = 1.1000000000000003 ;;; scheme@(guile-user)> (+ (* 2 .20) (* 0.10 7)) ;;; $21 = 1.1