Re: 128a Q

[Soroosh Yazdani]

Hi Danielle,

if your forward method is messing up toward the end, that means
the method is unstable. Probably what's happening is that small
numerical errors in the computer is messing things up for you.
If you want to check if your program is producing correct
numbers, you can just check the recurrence relation by a
hand calculator.

I don't understand what you were trying to look up though.
To prove the recurrence relation, you should use integration by
parts.

Cheers,
Soroosh
On Sat, Oct 28, 2006 at 07:57:19PM -0700, dcas...@berkeley.edu wrote:
> hi Soroosh,
>
> Im working on the programming assignment and have a couple questions. I
> did part 1 no problem, but part 2 is confusing to me. I programmed
> everything and the forward one seems to really mess up on the last few
> values of K... is this supposed to happen? I tried looking recurrence up
> in the book to figure out how to verify that the integral satisfies
> recurrence and couldnt find it. Could you tell me where to find this
> information and whether or not the information I am producing is messed
> up?
>
> Danielle