gibson:teaching:spring-2015:math445:lab4
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| this question very quickly by writing one line of Matlab code that evaluate the truncated sum for a fixed value of $N$, and then rerunning it with changing values of $N$. | this question very quickly by writing one line of Matlab code that evaluate the truncated sum for a fixed value of $N$, and then rerunning it with changing values of $N$. | ||
| - | Helpful Matlab commands: ''sum, format, exp'' (for getting the correct value of $e$ to sixteen digits), dot syntax, and ''log10'' (for counting digits of precision). | + | Helpful Matlab commands: ''sum, format, exp'' (for getting the correct value of $e$ to sixteen digits), colon syntax, dot syntax, and ''log10'' (for counting digits of precision). |
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| Like the exponential function, in practice one truncates this sum at $n=N$. How large does $n$ need to | Like the exponential function, in practice one truncates this sum at $n=N$. How large does $n$ need to | ||
| be to calculate $\sin \pi/3$ to sixteen digits? | be to calculate $\sin \pi/3$ to sixteen digits? | ||
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| + | Helpful Matlab commands: same as problem 4. | ||
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