#On the name of ALLAH and may the blessing and peace of Allah #be upon the Messenger of Allah Mohamed Salla Allahu Aliahi Wassalam. #Author : Fouad Teniou #Date : 06/07/10 #version :2.6 """ maclaurin_series_two is a function to compute 1/1+x^2 using maclaurin series and the interval of convergence is -1 < x < 1 1/1+x^2 = 1 - x^2 + x^4- x^6 ........... """ def error_two(number): """ Raises interval of convergence error.""" if number >= 1 or number <= -1 : raise TypeError,\ "\n<The interval of convergence should be -1 < value < 1 \n" def maclaurin_series_two(value, k): """ Compute maclaurin's series approximation for 1/1+x^2 """ global first_value first_value = 0.0 #attempt to Approximate 1/1+x^2 for a given value try: error_two(value) for item in xrange(0,k,4): next_value = value**item first_value += next_value for item in xrange(2,k,4): next_value = -1*(value**item) first_value += next_value return first_value #Raise TypeError if input is not within the interval of convergence except TypeError, exception: print exception if __name__ == "__main__": maclaurin_series1 = maclaurin_series_two(0.1,100) print maclaurin_series1 maclaurin_series2 = maclaurin_series_two(0.3,100) print maclaurin_series2 maclaurin_series3 = maclaurin_series_two(0.7,100) print maclaurin_series3 ################################################################### #"C:\python #0.990099009901 #0.917431192661 #0.671140939597