Byron Carasco

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Math 351 Lab 1

Problem 1
Part a
To get log (1.9), must be equal to 0.9.

Part b
Matlab Code:
format long
vpa(log(1.9), 10)
ans =

0.6418538862
syms k
vpa(-1.*symsum((-0.9).^k./k,1,166), 10)
ans =

0.6418538861
vpa(-1.*symsum((-0.9).^k./k,1,167), 10)
ans =

0.6418538862

Part c

To get log (1.9), must be equal to !".

Part d

Matlab Code:
format long
vpa(log(1.9), 10)
ans =

0.6418538862
syms k
vpa(2.*symsum((9./29).^(2.*k-1)./(2.*k-1),1,9), 10)
ans =

0.6418538861
vpa(2.*symsum((9./29).^(2.*k-1)./(2.*k-1),1,10), 10)
ans =

0.6418538862

Part e
Equation (2) would be more efficient for computing log (1.9), because it requires
way less operations (approximately 80) in comparison to (1) which has
approximately 500 operations.

Byron Carasco

Problem 2

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Matlab Code:
xvals = 10^-20:0.01:10^-1

function A = f1a(x)
(sqrt(4.+x).-2)./x

function B = f1b(x)
1./(sqrt(4.+x)+2)

function C = f2a(x)
(1.-exp(-1.*x))./x

function D = f2b(x)
(exp(-1.*x).*(-1+exp(x)))./x

f1a(xvals)
f1b(xvals)
f2a(xvals)
f2b(xvals)

There is a loss of significance error, the values seem to be rounding up too soon.