During the first and the second month, there is only one pair of rabbits. Then in the third month, the first pair of little ones will be born. Now there are two pairs of rabbits... By the nth month, the increased number of rabbits, compared with the previous month, equals to the total number of rabbits two months ago ( i.e. in the n-2th month). In this way, the total number of rabbits can be expressed by a series: 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13... From the third number, each number is the sum of previous two ones.
The principle of this loop computation is that, from the first two terms 1,1, the value of a new term is created by cyclically calculating the sum of the last two terms.
With esProc, the loop computation will be operated in the following manner:
This method
uses for n loop to complete looping execution of
designated times. Since the values of the first and second term have been
decided during the initial setting, the loop computation should be reduced by
two times. A3 stores Fibonacci Sequence, B4 computes the sum of last two
numbers, statement in C4 is used to add results from B4 into the series.
Or, for x is used in esProc to execute loop computation. If the value of x is true,looping execution of statement block will continue all through, as shown in this figure:
A6 stores
Fibonacci Sequence. According to the statement in A7, looping execution begins
when the number of terms is less than designated total numbers. Statement in
B7, which directly works out new term to
add to the series, is the combination of that in B4 and C4. When computations
are finished, results in A6 and A3 are the same.
Or, for looping statement can be replaced in esProc by loop function to realize loop computation:
During
initial setting in A9, values of both the zero and first term are determined.
With loop function in A10, each time when the value of next term is computed,
it will be assigned to b;and the original value of b, i.e., the
value of current term, will be assigned to a; at the same time, the current
term of the series is reset to a. With loop parameter, the amount of code can
be effectively reduced. Result in A10 is the same as that in A3.
The
subprogram in the latter part of A13 is responsible for computing Fibonacci
Sequence of designated number of terms. if statement is used in the subprogram
to make judgment, classifying two cases in producing
Fibonacci Sequence: if the number of terms is less than or equal to 2, 1 is
filled in each term; if it is more than 2, call function with recursion in B14
to get the first n-1 terms, compute the sum of the last
two terms and add result to the series. Results of A12 and A3 are the
same.
By comparing
the above several computing methods, we find that for loop is simple and easy
to understand; loop function boasts the least amount of code; and for
subprogram, calling is convenient and reusability of the code is high, so it’s
suitable for cases required to make the same repeated computations. In
real-world applications, we can make different choices as needed.
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