1.3.3. Procedures as General Methods
Exercise 1.39
A continued fraction representation of the tangent function was published in 1770 by the German mathematician J.H. Lambert:
tan x = x
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1 - x²
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3 - x²
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5 - ...
where x is in radians. Define a procedure (tan-cf x k) that computes an approximation to the tangent function based on Lambert's formula. K specifies the number of terms to compute, as in exercise 1.37.