rayheberer
/ continued_fraction.R
Created
June 3, 2017 16:48
function that takes an arbitrary amount of numerics and returns a continued fraction (a + 1/(b+1/(c+...))) with a, b, c... being the order in which the arguments are passed into the function
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| # Use Reduce() to write a function for generating continued fractions. For example continued_fraction(4, 2, 6, 7) should return 4.462366. | |
| continued_fraction = function(...) { | |
| input.vector = as.numeric(c(...)) #since Reduce() acts on vectors, the arguments are first joined as a vector | |
| return(Reduce(function(a,b) b + 1/a, rev(input.vector))) #rev() to reverse the order of the vector, so that the binary operation will work as intended | |
| } |
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