Hi, I am learning Scheme using SCIP and R. Kent Dybvig's "The Scheme Programming Language". I am stuck on exercise 1.16 in Abelson and Sussman. The task is to "design a procedure that evolves and iterative exponentiation process that uses successive squaring".
Well, I can't seem to get it working. The code I have tried looks something like this: [code] ; iterative process for fast exponent ; NOT WORKING!!! (define (expt b p) (exp-it b p 1)) (define (exp-it b p a) (cond ((= p 0) a) ((even? p) (exp-it b (/ p 2) (* a (square b))))) (else (exp-it b (- p 1) (* b a))))) [/code] -- View this message in context: http://old.nabble.com/SICP-ex.-1.16-tp34305765p34305765.html Sent from the Gnu - MIT Scheme - Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ MIT-Scheme-users mailing list MIT-Scheme-users@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/mit-scheme-users