;; newton.hs — Newton's method for square root. ;; Source: classic numerical analysis exercise. ;; ;; Exercises Phase 10: `Float`, `abs`, `/`, iteration via `until`. (define hk-prog-val (fn (src name) (hk-deep-force (get (hk-eval-program (hk-core src)) name)))) (define hk-newton-source "improve x guess = (guess + x / guess) / 2\n\ngoodEnough x guess = abs (guess * guess - x) < 0.0001\n\nnewtonSqrt x = newtonHelp x 1.0\n\nnewtonHelp x guess = if goodEnough x guess\n then guess\n else newtonHelp x (improve x guess)\n") (hk-test "newton.hs — newtonSqrt 4 ≈ 2" (hk-prog-val (str hk-newton-source "r = abs (newtonSqrt 4.0 - 2.0) < 0.001\n") "r") (list "True")) (hk-test "newton.hs — newtonSqrt 9 ≈ 3" (hk-prog-val (str hk-newton-source "r = abs (newtonSqrt 9.0 - 3.0) < 0.001\n") "r") (list "True")) (hk-test "newton.hs — newtonSqrt 2 ≈ 1.41421" (hk-prog-val (str hk-newton-source "r = abs (newtonSqrt 2.0 - 1.41421) < 0.001\n") "r") (list "True")) (hk-test "newton.hs — improve converges (one step)" (hk-prog-val (str hk-newton-source "r = improve 4.0 1.0\n") "r") 2.5) (hk-test "newton.hs — newtonSqrt 100 ≈ 10" (hk-prog-val (str hk-newton-source "r = abs (newtonSqrt 100.0 - 10.0) < 0.001\n") "r") (list "True")) {:fails hk-test-fails :pass hk-test-pass :fail hk-test-fail}