An infinite loop on large inputs is unrelated to his null-pointer
problem. As SICP makes clear, the imprecision of floating-point
arithmetic means this particular algorithm will not terminate for
large inputs. That is, rounding errors stop it from making progress
when the numbers are large and the
+1 hangs with Clojure 1.2.1 in Slimes REPL on Java 1.6.0_26 (Ubuntu)
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Armando, I get the same behavior as you with Clojure 1.2.1. But if I lein
dep Clojure 1.3.0, I'm back to NullPointerExceptions.
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With 1.3/OSX this code worked up to:
user=> (sqrt 1)
100.0
and then hanged here:
user=> (sqrt 10)
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On Oct 13, 7:04 pm, "Alan O'Donnell"
wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> I've encountered an unexpected NullPointerException while translating
> some early SICP code into Clo
