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Iteration - General method for the HP-10C

This program is by Tizedes Csaba and is used here by permission.

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Overview

With this program you can solve iterative problems, limited by mem. If you want to use in the iteration's calculations more registers, use the following table for the available number of iteration steps:

You want to use   Steps of available
R0                  51
R0, R1              44
R0, R1, R2          37
R0, R1, R2, R3      30
R0...R4             23
R0...R5             16
R0...R6              9
R0...R7              2

If you don't use closing 'R/S' instruction at the end of program, this steps are inceable by 1. The precision of iteration is can controlled by the marked 'EEX 3' steps in the program list. See the examples for more information!

Listing

[2:] STO 0
     ######################
     #                    #
     # STEPS OF ITERATION #
     #                    #
     ###################### calculated new value required in the stack_x
     ENTER
     ENTER
     ENTER
     RCL 0
     sub
     sq            #calculating
     sqrt          #absolute-value
     x change y
     EEX
     3             #use bigger number for more precision
     div           #'new/1000' as 0.1% precision
     x change y
     x<=y?      #'abs(new-old)<=0.1% of new ?'
     GTO[1]
     roll down
     roll down
     GTO[2]
[1]: roll down
     roll down
     R/S

21 steps

'sq' is mean 'square', 'sqrt' is mean 'square root'.

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