Re: FixedPoint[Cos, 1.0]
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- Subject: [mg119390] Re: FixedPoint[Cos, 1.0]
- From: Andrzej Kozlowski <akoz at mimuw.edu.pl>
- Date: Wed, 1 Jun 2011 06:54:28 -0400 (EDT)
I can confirm this happens on Mac OS X, with versions 6, 7 and 8. and even 5.2. Strange that nobody has noticed this for such a long time. Andrzej Kozlowski On 31 May 2011, at 13:49, J Siehler wrote: > My numerical analysis students this past term pointed out to me that > the command > > FixedPoint[Cos, 1.0] > > which is the first example in the Information for FixedPoint doesn't > ever finish running (or, not in any reasonable amount of time). We > tried this on serveral versions of Mathematica (6.x, 7.x, and 8.x), > all on OS X, and got the same nonresult. > > It can be forced by specifying something like FixedPoint[Cos, 1.0, > SameTest -> (Abs[#1 - #2] < 10^-10 &)] or FixedPoint[Cos, 1.0, 40], > but it seems like that should be unnecessary, and the form given in > the documentation should work. Can anybody else confirm this > behavior? Am I missing something totally obvious here? >