Probably a No-Brainer

[Roger Guay]

Wait a minute .  .  I think I got it:

on mouseUp

	put 0 into m

	repeat 3 --(or any number)

		get fld "genFctn"

		put it&"+" after field "explFctn"

		replace n with m in fld "explFctn"

		add 1 to m

	end repeat

	delete last char of fld "explFctn"

end mouseUp


Roger


> On Dec 27, 2018, at 11:31 AM, Roger Guay via use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
> 
> 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 at 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!
>> 
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