[plt-scheme] Another request for help with book (HTDP)

The code below is wrong and the sample solutions are correct. According
to the problem spec in 11.2.2, tabulate-f

  "consumes a natural number n and produces a list of n posns"

Running your program for 0 will produce a list of 1 posn, but it should
produce a list of 0 posns.

I don't see any problems with 11.4.6 either.

Robby

At Sat, 10 Jul 2004 09:34:48 +0800, "Zhu Chongkai" wrote:
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> My answer to exercise 11.2.2 is 
> 
> (define (tabulate-f n)
>   (cond
>     [(zero? n) (cons (make-posn 0 (f 0)) empty)]
>     [else (cons (make-posn n (f n))
>                 (tabulate-f (sub1 n)))]))
> 
> But this means that: 
> 
> 1 HTDP exercise 11.4.6 should better be revised, using the same f of 
>   exercise 11.2.2
> 2 the official solutions (www.htdp.org/2003-09-26/Solutions/) 
>   for these exercise are also wrong !!!!!!!
> 
> 
> ======= 2004-07-08 11:12:21 Matt H?=======
> 
> >Thanks again for helping me. 
> >
> >I'm working in Chapter 11 of HTDP, and for exercise 11.2.2 I came up
> >with this solution:
> >;; tabulate-f : number -> list-of-posns
> >;; product a list of n posns using f.
> >(define (tabulate-f n)
> >  (cond
> >    [(zero? n) empty]
> >    [else (cons (make-posn n (f n)) (tabulate-f (sub1 n)))]))
> >
> >Now, I'm not positive that this is correct because in exercise 11.4.6
> >it says that (tabulate-f 3) should produce:
> >(cons (make-posn 3 2.4)
> >  (cons (make-posn 2 3.4)
> >    (cons (make-posn 1 3.6)
> >      (cons (make-posn 0 3.0)
> >        empty))))
> >
> >But I get:
> >(cons (make-posn 3 8)
> >  (cons (make-posn 2 -1)
> >    (cons (make-posn 1 -4) empty)))
> >
> >Is my solution for exercise 11.2.2 incorrect?
> >
> >Thank you for your time.
> >
> >On Wed, 7 Jul 2004 15:53:46 +0800, Zhu Chongkai <mathematica at citiz.net> wrote:
> >> 
> >> It is me again.
> >> 
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> >> ======= 2004-07-07 08:31:25 Matt H?=======
> >> 
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> >> >
> >> >Once again, I appear to be stuck. If someone is willing to help me
> >> >with execise 11.2.2, I would be grateful.
> >> >
> >> >Thanks.
> >> >
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