You are so clever, Herman! Yes, the idea is to write it out into a field. This is great for the Taylor series, but how would one generalize this so that we could expand any fctn of x and n in the “genFctn” field into the “expandedFctn” field
Sorry to take up so much of your time. Thanks, Roger > On Dec 27, 2018, at 11:02 AM, hh via use-livecode > <use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: > > You don't want to compute it but want to write it out into a field? > > on mouseUp > put taylorsum(4,"x") into fld "OUT" > end mouseUp > > function taylorsum n,x -- n is the degree, x the function argument > put "1" into s -- or: put x &"^0/0!" into s > repeat with i=1 to n > put " + " & x &"^"& i &"/"& i &"!" after s > end repeat > return char 1 to -1 of s > end taylorsum > > taylorsum(4,"x") yields --> 1 + x^1/1! + x^2/2! + x^3/3! + x^4/4! > taylorsum(4,"2") yields --> 1 + 2^1/1! + 2^2/2! + 2^3/3! + 2^4/4! > > > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription > preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode