CSE 541 Lab Assignments

Lab1 asks you to study different Taylor's series approximations to a function, present your findings and most importantly analyze your results, draw conclusions and discuss any descrepencies on your expected answer and the answers generated via your sample programs.

Grade Breakdown:

1. Results: (50%) I am expecting tables, figures or at least text descriptions of the results they got from Lab1
   • Floats (4 functions) with correct number of iterations: 20%
   • Doubles (4 functions) with correct number of iterations: 20%
   • Optimization: 10%
2. Analysis: (40%)
   • Correctness, errors, and timing analysis for floats (4 functions): 15%
   • Correctness, errors, and timing analysis for doubles (4 functions): 15%
   • Analysis of how optimization affects the correctness and timing: 10%
3. Format of the report and easiness to read: (5%)
4. Coding and Comments: (5%)
5. (Extra credit) (5%) Plots of the resulting timings and integrals.

Notes:

• Converting from Resolve to C++, examine the sample progam in Resolve and in C++. Thanks to Dr. Long for providing this assistance.
• Note, if you still use Resolve, you are using protected arithmetic. This is a great example of C++ overloading and hidden abstraction. Before two Reals are divided, a test is done to ensure divide by zero does not happen. This will slow your results, but still be informative.
• Use integers in all of your for loops.