What is the command to do a power of a value

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C=L(1+i/100)power of n

i am stuck here
for example square root is Math.sqrt(x) How do i do Power of a value?

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C=L(1+i/100)power of n

i am stuck here
for example square root is Math.sqrt(x)
How do i do Power of a value?
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I have a dim memory from Numerical Analysis that the "obvious" way to evaluate
that is inaccurate for small "i" and large "n".

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glen herrmannsfeldt

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C=L(1+i/100)power of n
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i am stuck here
for example square root is Math.sqrt(x)
How do i do Power of a value?
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Math.pow().

-- glen

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Math.pow().



-- glen
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Thanks!

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C=L(1+i/100)power of n

i am stuck here
for example square root is Math.sqrt(x)
How do i do Power of a value?
Click to expand...

see http://mindprod.com/jgloss/power.html
--
Roedy Green Canadian Mind Products
http://mindprod.com
The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand the
exponential function.
~ Dr. Albert A. Bartlett (born: 1923-03-21 age: 89)

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Andreas Leitgeb

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C=L(1+i/100)power of n
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x ^ n = exp ( log(x) * n ) | x = (1 + i/100)
= exp ( log( 1 + i/100 ) * n)
= exp ( log1p ( i/100 ) * n)

If you're doing more calculations with same interest-rate but different
periods, then you may want to calculate
double logBase = Math.log1p( i / 100 );
once, and use that for the individual calculations:
C = L * Math.exp( logBase * n )

The gist of this response is, that for the kind of base (1+i/100), you better
separate the pow operation out into log and exp, and actually use log1p on
(i/100) instead of log on (1+i/100) for efficiency's and precision's sake.

For "Math.log1p" see:
http://docs.oracle.com/javase/6/docs/api/java/lang/Math.html#log1p(double)

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Patricia Shanahan

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x ^ n = exp ( log(x) * n ) | x = (1 + i/100)
= exp ( log( 1 + i/100 ) * n)
= exp ( log1p ( i/100 ) * n)

If you're doing more calculations with same interest-rate but
different periods, then you may want to calculate
double logBase = Math.log1p( i / 100 );
once, and use that for the individual calculations:
C = L * Math.exp( logBase * n )

The gist of this response is, that for the kind of base (1+i/100),
you better separate the pow operation out into log and exp, and
actually use log1p on (i/100) instead of log on (1+i/100) for
efficiency's and precision's sake.

For "Math.log1p" see:
http://docs.oracle.com/javase/6/docs/api/java/lang/Math.html#log1p(double%2 9
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I am curious about why you expect this to be more precise than: "The computed
result must be within 1 ulp of the exact result. Results must be
semi-monotonic." (From the pow description). Or do you know of cases where
Math.pow gets an over-large rounding error?

Note that I am not disagreeing with your method for calculating a power of a
number slightly greater than 1, just questioning whether doing it explicitly
gets more precise answers than using Math.pow.

Patricia

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I am curious about why you expect this to be more precise than: "The computed
result must be within 1 ulp of the exact result. Results must be
semi-monotonic." (From the pow description). Or do you know of cases where
Math.pow gets an over-large rounding error?

Note that I am not disagreeing with your method for calculating a power of a
number slightly greater than 1, just questioning whether doing it explicitly
gets more precise answers than using Math.pow.
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I've thought about this some more, and I think I get it now.

If i is reasonably small compared to 100, the 1 + i/100 addition loses several
bits of precision.

Patricia

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glen herrmannsfeldt

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(snip, someone wrote)
(snip)

I am curious about why you expect this to be more precise than:
"The computed result must be within 1 ulp of the exact result.
Results must be semi-monotonic." (From the pow description).
Or do you know of cases where Math.pow gets an over-large
rounding error?
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I didn't know about the log1p function. (Does Java have one?)

As x gets small log(1+x) loses precision. Consider:

log(1+1e-60)

The x87 instruction set has an instruction for evaluating log(1+x) and one for
evaluating exp(x-1). Most HLLs don't.

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Patricia Shanahan

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On 7/30/2012 3:26 PM, glen herrmannsfeldt wrote: ...
I didn't know about the log1p function. (Does Java have one?)
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It's in java.lang.Math, since 1.5.

Patricia

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Andreas Leitgeb

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glen herrmannsfeldt said:
and one for evaluating exp(x-1).
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That is exp(x)-1, not exp(x-1), just for the record ;-)

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