I'm sorry. I never considered what you said about the relationship about the input and output. I'll take my thread elsewhere to a math board.
Erik Max Francis wrote: > Jay wrote: > > > That function is absolutely no good for this situation. > > > > 1. Take a small number. > > 5.4348809719085693 > > > > 2. Put it in the function. > > f(5.4348809719085693) = 1/5.4348809719085693 > > > > 3. Get a large number??? > > 0.18399666987533483 > > > > That number is even smaller. I want a large one coming out. > > f(x) = 1/x is just one example of a function that has the property of > being a "negative function" -- the smaller number you put in, the larger > number you get out, and vice versa. Your statement didn't clearly > indicate that the outputs need to be bigger than the inputs, just that > they need to be bigger the smaller the outputs are. The more general > function would be f(x) = A/(x - B). Choose A and B as desired so that > f(x) > x for all x you care about. Or choose another function, like > f(x) = A - B x or any number of other functions. There literally are an > infinite number of possibilities. > > The point is, as I've already said, you haven't given nearly enough > information to give you a useful answer. You haven't indicated, for > instance, anything at all about the domain or range of the function that > you want: What values do you need to plug in? What range of values do > you need to get out? Once you have clarified to yourself what > properties you want, that will help you define the function. > > At this point you're the only one who knows what properties you want, > and unless you define them up front, it results in a very unsatisfactory > guessing game of proposing a function, you telling me what's wrong with > it, and repeat until either or both of us get bored. > > And, by the way, this is a question about mathematics, and so has > nothing to do specifically with Python. > > -- > Erik Max Francis && [EMAIL PROTECTED] && http://www.alcyone.com/max/ > San Jose, CA, USA && 37 20 N 121 53 W && AIM, Y!M erikmaxfrancis > Get married, but never to a man who is home all day. > -- George Bernard Shaw -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
