How does the following code enter an infinite loop if abs(guess**2 -x) >= epsilon (line 7)?

Riham Jamal 0
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I don't understand why does this code enter an infinite loop. I've tried debugging to see the problem but that didn't help much. The program keeps looping between the while and first if statement.

x = 25
epsilon = 0.01
step = 0.1
guess = 0.0

while guess <= x:
    if abs(guess**2 -x) >= epsilon:
        guess += step

if abs(guess**2 - x) >= epsilon:
    print('failed')
else:
    print('succeeded: ' + str(guess))
loops python
2 Answers

You need to add break

x = 25
epsilon = 0.01
step = 0.1
guess = 0.0

while guess <= x:
    if abs(guess**2 -x) >= epsilon:
        guess += step
    else:
        break

if abs(guess**2 - x) >= epsilon:
    print('failed')
else:
    print('succeeded: ' + str(guess))
theabc501110

Once your guess reaches a value of 5, the conditional stops being met and your guess isn't incremented anymore. After that, your program loops infinitely.

Eratosthenes0
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