Re: while/for statement — what's wrong in a co de?

[Liam Groener]

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On Apr 30, 2011, at 3:21 AM, alhaim <address@hidden> wrote:

> I should have mention it before -- p is set to 0.01 at the beginning.
> 
> The whole code goes like this:
> 
> 
> sens = 0.1;    
> p = 0.1;    
> 
> %K = 1;    
> 
> %ceil(log_2 K)+ 1/[1-(1-p)^K]
> for K= 1:10
>    while ( p < 1 )
>        ceil(log2(K))  +  1/(1-(1-p)^K) 
>        p = p + sens;
>        K
>    endwhile;
> endfor
> 
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Yep, but the p=0.1 should be the first statement in the for loop, just before 
the while statement. Otherwise p will always be greater than 1 for K greater 
than 1.