Re: FixedPoint[Cos, 1.0]
- To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
- Subject: [mg119406] Re: FixedPoint[Cos, 1.0]
- From: magma <maderri2 at gmail.com>
- Date: Thu, 2 Jun 2011 07:15:56 -0400 (EDT)
- References: <is5841$dlu$1@smc.vnet.net>
> > 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). In version 8.0.1.0 February 24 2011 (32 bits) under Windows 1- this particular example is no longer present in the Information page of FixedPoint 2- FixedPoint[Cos, 1.0] works well, returning 0.739085 right away. In version 7 under Windows it also works well. So we can conclude that this is an issue linked to Mac OS X