[Tutor] script comparing two values - ASCII encoding error

[Mic Forster]

Jeff,

I've seem to have solved the problem:

code with problem:

>>> def f(k, s):
        return k / (1-k) * (1-k)**s / (1-(1-k)**s)

>>> j = 1. / 1600
>>> s = 15
>>> def bisect(min, max, delta, function):
        fMax = function(max)
        fMin = function(min)	
        assert fMax * fMin < 0
        while max - min > delta:
                newX = 0.5 * (min + max)
                fNew = function(newX)
                if fNew * fMax > 0:
                                max, fMax = newX, fNew
                else:
                        min, fMin = newX, fNew
        return newX, fNew

>>> def fun(x):
            return f(x, s) – j

UnicodeError: ASCII encoding error: ordinal not in
range(128)




code without problem:

>>> def f(k, s):
        return k / (1-k) * (1-k)**s / (1-(1-k)**s)

>>> j = 1. / 1600
>>> s = 15
>>> def bisect(min, max, delta, function):
        fMax = function(max)
        fMin = function(min)	
        assert fMax * fMin < 0
        while max - min > delta:
                newX = 0.5 * (min + max)
                fNew = function(newX)
                if fNew * fMax > 0:
                                max, fMax = newX, fNew
                else:
                        min, fMin = newX, fNew
        return newX, fNew

>>> def fun(x):
	return f(x, s) - j

>>> 

For some reason the identation in that last line got
mucked up. Thanks for your help, Mic

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