From 7b824e0268575e4c13c624b54b2a1280aa295f7f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Yevhenii Shapovalov <yshapova@redhat.com>
Date: Thu, 9 Nov 2017 13:39:24 +0200
Subject: add tests

---
 tests/Smoke/bisect.lua | 28 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 28 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 tests/Smoke/bisect.lua

(limited to 'tests/Smoke/bisect.lua')

diff --git a/tests/Smoke/bisect.lua b/tests/Smoke/bisect.lua
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..77ac36c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/Smoke/bisect.lua
@@ -0,0 +1,28 @@
+-- bisect.lua
+-- bisection method for solving non-linear equations
+
+delta=1e-6  -- tolerance
+
+function bisect(f,a,b,fa,fb)
+ local c=(a+b)/2
+ io.write(n," c=",c," a=",a," b=",b,"\n")
+ if c==a or c==b or math.abs(a-b)<delta then return c,b-a end
+ n=n+1
+ local fc=f(c)
+ if fa*fc<0 then return bisect(f,a,c,fa,fc) else return bisect(f,c,b,fc,fb) end
+end
+
+-- find root of f in the inverval [a,b]. needs f(a)*f(b)<0
+function solve(f,a,b)
+ n=0
+ local z,e=bisect(f,a,b,f(a),f(b))
+ io.write(string.format("after %d steps, root is %.17g with error %.1e, f=%.1e\n",n,z,e,f(z)))
+end
+
+-- our function
+function f(x)
+ return x*x*x-x-1
+end
+
+-- find zero in [1,2]
+solve(f,1,2)
-- 
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