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Mac FixedPoint[] problem looks like SameQ[] is culprit

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  • Subject: [mg119543] Mac FixedPoint[] problem looks like SameQ[] is culprit
  • From: "McHale, Paul" <Paul.McHale at excelitas.com>
  • Date: Wed, 8 Jun 2011 07:15:42 -0400 (EDT)

If this has already been covered, I apologize for the redundancy.  I was playing with the problem with a Mac and PC side by side.  The first test was to limit the iterations to see if the algorithm was working at all by running the following on the Mac.

m=Table[FixedPoint[Cos,1.1,x],{x,75,85}]
Table[{i+74,m[[i]]==m[[i+1]]},{i,1,Length[m]-1}]

{0.739085,0.739085,0.739085,0.739085,0.739085,0.739085,0.739085,0.739085,0.739085,0.739085,0.739085}

{{75,False},{76,False},{77,False},{78,False},{79,False},{80,False},{81,True},{82,True},{83,True},{84,True}}

This was the same on the PC.  So it appeared the algorithm worked if I killed at iteration X.  I started playing with the verification that is used to determine whether to re-apply the function. 

FixedPoint[Cos,1.1,SameTest-> (#1 == #2&)]
0.739085

FixedPoint[Cos,1.1,SameTest->(Abs[#1-#2]<1*^-10&)]
0.739085

FixedPoint[Cos,1.1,SameTest->(Equal[#1,#2]&)]
0.739085

FixedPoint[Cos,1.1,SameTest->(SameQ[#1,#2]&)]
$Aborted

My conclusion is SameQ has some issue.  Anyone think this is correct?  BTW, all work on the PC.

Thanks,
Paul


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