Question

I'm working on problem set 1c and I'm having trouble understanding how to apply the high and low criteria for bisection search to that specific situation. Any help?

Answer 1

I was replying to this when the site locked... anyhow, let me try again.



It keeps on moving the low and high until it gets to or close enough to the goal. It will go exactly to the goal for things where that is possible and programmed for. Bit with say a floting point, you can't get exact values. So you do a close to test which is sometimes called the epsilon-delta test. \(\epsilon - \delta \) comes from a calculus definition.