From: Ramakrishnan Muthukrishnan Date: Fri, 9 Apr 2010 07:37:34 +0000 (+0530) Subject: Added a note on finding the order of space. X-Git-Url: https://git.rkrishnan.org/%5B/%5D%20/file/URI:LIT:krugkidfnzsc4/%3C?a=commitdiff_plain;h=4b55ba0f72e5669a797e9ed24cbc26a6880f3a1e;p=sicp.git Added a note on finding the order of space. --- diff --git a/chapter1/ch1_2.clj b/chapter1/ch1_2.clj index 89ae7db..89ccec5 100644 --- a/chapter1/ch1_2.clj +++ b/chapter1/ch1_2.clj @@ -448,6 +448,10 @@ TRACE t2494: => -0.39980345741334 ;; a * (1/3)^n <= 0.1 ;; => take log to the base 3 on both the sides. +;; Note: Finding the order of space in a recursive process is sort of, equiv +;; to finding the number of deferred operations. Which is in-turn the +;; same as the depth of the evaluation tree. + ;; 1.2.4: exponentiation ;; computing b^n (defn expt [b n]