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exercise_1.35 [2009/03/02 01:46] (current)
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 +//
 +Show that the golden ratio ϕ (section 1.2.2) is a fixed point of the transformation x ↦ 1 + 1/x, and use this fact to compute ϕ by means of the fixed-point procedure.
 +//
 +<code scheme>
 +(define ϕ (/ (+ 1 (sqrt 5)) 2))
 +(+ 1 (/ 1 ϕ)) ; => ϕ = 1.618033988749895
 +
 +(define tolerance 0.00001)
 +(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))
 +
 +(fixed-point (lambda (x) (+ 1 (/ 1 x))) 1) ; => 987 / 610 = 1.6180327869
 +</code>
 
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