One approach
One function to compute the next iterate
Another function to call the computation function until results are within
some tolerance
It's usually presented as separation of control and computation 😎
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Casey
On Sep 3, 2017 1:23 AM, "mike h"
Hi,
To help me in learning Haskell I started blogging about some of the things I’ve looked at. One such topic was calculating square roots ‘by hand’ and then deriving a Haskell algorithm. I wrote about the well known technique here http://gitcommit.co.uk/2017/08/25/the-root-of-the-problem-part-1/
and it it is really quite a simple method.
The second part of the post will be an implementation in Haskell.
I then tried implementing it and got something that works but really its not very pleasant to look at! And its something I don’t want to post! Some parts are fine but I think I locked myself into the notion that it had to be using State and really the end result is pretty poor.
I know this i perhaps a ‘big ask’ but I’d really appreciate any suggestions, solutions, hints etc. I will of course give full attribution.
I’ve created a gist of the code here https://gist.github.com/banditpig
Many Thanks
Mike
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