TPK algorithm: Difference between revisions

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The algorithm reads eleven numbers from an input device, stores them in an array, and then processes them in reverse order, applying a user-defined function to each value and reporting either the value of the function or a message to the effect that the value has exceeded some threshold.

The problem with the usually specified function is that the term 5*t^3 gives overflows in almost all languages for very large negative values. (For very large positive values one could solve f(t)==400, yielding for t around 4.3, and write 'TOO LARGE' before ever evaluating f(t).)

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