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Amazing Little Ecosystem ([personal profile] winterthunder) wrote in [community profile] intro_to_cs2010-01-31 06:23 pm
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Lecture 5

Hello hello hello!

Lecture five was a short one, and we did not find out about the mysteries of the Newton method. Based on the handout, it looks like they planned to go over it, so I guess that comes next week.







Anyway, without the Newton method, this lecture was mostly stuff I understood from the readings. What about the rest of you? Anyone guess the bug in the squareRootBi code?

[personal profile] aranthe 2010-02-02 05:53 pm (UTC)(link)
Anyone guess the bug in the squareRootBi code?

Not sure if this is what he was referring to: There's no solution for the square root of a negative number in the set of real numbers, but the function doesn't insure that x is positive.