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'And fun? If maths is fun, then getting a tooth extraction is fun. A viral infection is fun. Rabies shots are fun.'
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What do you do first?
In mathematics, you don't understand things. You just get used to them.
If it ain't broke, fix it until it is.
Always satisfy the Prime Directive of getting the right answer above all else.
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Notice that cos(pi n) should be replaced with if (even n) then 1 else -1 because cos is expensive.
Then I compute partial sums, of course.
'And fun? If maths is fun, then getting a tooth extraction is fun. A viral infection is fun. Rabies shots are fun.'
'God exists because Mathematics is consistent, and the devil exists because we cannot prove it'
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I am paraphrasing but someone once said,
The purpose of math is to eliminate intelligent thought.
We compute partial sums without the noticing.
In mathematics, you don't understand things. You just get used to them.
If it ain't broke, fix it until it is.
Always satisfy the Prime Directive of getting the right answer above all else.
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I would still advice using the if-else defintion because that computes faster.
Mathematicians like simplicity. I like speed.
'And fun? If maths is fun, then getting a tooth extraction is fun. A viral infection is fun. Rabies shots are fun.'
'God exists because Mathematics is consistent, and the devil exists because we cannot prove it'
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It will be fast enough for our purposes.
In mathematics, you don't understand things. You just get used to them.
If it ain't broke, fix it until it is.
Always satisfy the Prime Directive of getting the right answer above all else.
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Here are the partial sums for several powers of 2:
[-0.5,-0.5833333333333333,-0.6345238095238095,-0.6628718503718505,-0.6777662022075269,-0.6853957082692488,-0.6892561888834033,-0.6911978702281084,-0.6921715717324437,-0.6926591377284127,-0.6929030995395857,-0.6930251251486118,-0.693086149128997,-0.6931166639131536,-0.6931319220037282,-0.6931395512236546]
'And fun? If maths is fun, then getting a tooth extraction is fun. A viral infection is fun. Rabies shots are fun.'
'God exists because Mathematics is consistent, and the devil exists because we cannot prove it'
I'm not crazy, my mother had me tested.
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To what powers?
In mathematics, you don't understand things. You just get used to them.
If it ain't broke, fix it until it is.
Always satisfy the Prime Directive of getting the right answer above all else.
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2^1, 2^2, ... 2^16
Prelude> pSum f n = sum $ take n [f m | m <- [1.0, 2.0 ..]]
Prelude> map (pSum (\n -> cos(pi*n)/n)) [2^n | n <- [1..16]]
[-0.5,-0.5833333333333333,-0.6345238095238095,-0.6628718503718505,-0.6777662022075269,-0.6853957082692488,-0.6892561888834033,-0.6911978702281084,-0.6921715717324437,-0.6926591377284127,-0.6929030995395857,-0.6930251251486118,-0.693086149128997,-0.6931166639131536,-0.6931319220037282,-0.6931395512236546]
'And fun? If maths is fun, then getting a tooth extraction is fun. A viral infection is fun. Rabies shots are fun.'
'God exists because Mathematics is consistent, and the devil exists because we cannot prove it'
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Please truncate that list for only 2^10. Do you see that convergence is slow? Now apply shanks acceleration to it.
In mathematics, you don't understand things. You just get used to them.
If it ain't broke, fix it until it is.
Always satisfy the Prime Directive of getting the right answer above all else.
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Before that, is Dimensions[l][[1]] the same as Length[l]?
'And fun? If maths is fun, then getting a tooth extraction is fun. A viral infection is fun. Rabies shots are fun.'
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You never have to ask that sort of question of another person. Just ask M. Did it work?
In mathematics, you don't understand things. You just get used to them.
If it ain't broke, fix it until it is.
Always satisfy the Prime Directive of getting the right answer above all else.
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There is something weird with your code. What is x? Why do you increment it but not use it?
In[2]:= shanks[{-0.5,-0.5833333333333333,-0.6345238095238095,-0.6628718503718505,-0.6777662022075269,-0.6853957082692488,-0.6892561888834033,-0.6911978702281084,-0.6921715717324437,-0.6926591377284127}]
Out[2]= {-0.716049,-0.698052,-0.694255,-0.693408,-0.69321,-0.693163,-0.693151,-0.693148}
'And fun? If maths is fun, then getting a tooth extraction is fun. A viral infection is fun. Rabies shots are fun.'
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What do you have for the last one in your list. We will look at the code later.
In mathematics, you don't understand things. You just get used to them.
If it ain't broke, fix it until it is.
Always satisfy the Prime Directive of getting the right answer above all else.
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Is -0.693148 the value we are looking for?
'And fun? If maths is fun, then getting a tooth extraction is fun. A viral infection is fun. Rabies shots are fun.'
'God exists because Mathematics is consistent, and the devil exists because we cannot prove it'
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Is that all the precision you have?
In mathematics, you don't understand things. You just get used to them.
If it ain't broke, fix it until it is.
Always satisfy the Prime Directive of getting the right answer above all else.
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I do not know how to get more precision.
'And fun? If maths is fun, then getting a tooth extraction is fun. A viral infection is fun. Rabies shots are fun.'
'God exists because Mathematics is consistent, and the devil exists because we cannot prove it'
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Hmmm, did you copy and paste that answer back into a notebook cell?
In mathematics, you don't understand things. You just get used to them.
If it ain't broke, fix it until it is.
Always satisfy the Prime Directive of getting the right answer above all else.
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No, I already have it in the notebook cell.
'And fun? If maths is fun, then getting a tooth extraction is fun. A viral infection is fun. Rabies shots are fun.'
'God exists because Mathematics is consistent, and the devil exists because we cannot prove it'
I'm not crazy, my mother had me tested.
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Repaste the six digit answer in the notebook and you will see more.
In mathematics, you don't understand things. You just get used to them.
If it ain't broke, fix it until it is.
Always satisfy the Prime Directive of getting the right answer above all else.
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Oh okay, right. I got -0.6931481384212015
'And fun? If maths is fun, then getting a tooth extraction is fun. A viral infection is fun. Rabies shots are fun.'
'God exists because Mathematics is consistent, and the devil exists because we cannot prove it'
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Now what do you do?
In mathematics, you don't understand things. You just get used to them.
If it ain't broke, fix it until it is.
Always satisfy the Prime Directive of getting the right answer above all else.
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I check my answer in two ways.
'And fun? If maths is fun, then getting a tooth extraction is fun. A viral infection is fun. Rabies shots are fun.'
'God exists because Mathematics is consistent, and the devil exists because we cannot prove it'
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What answer?
In mathematics, you don't understand things. You just get used to them.
If it ain't broke, fix it until it is.
Always satisfy the Prime Directive of getting the right answer above all else.
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-0.693148...
'And fun? If maths is fun, then getting a tooth extraction is fun. A viral infection is fun. Rabies shots are fun.'
'God exists because Mathematics is consistent, and the devil exists because we cannot prove it'
I'm not crazy, my mother had me tested.
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