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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Thanks again David –<o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">I see. Your function is NOT closed form – it is iterative; self-terminating at 8 “for loops” – absolutely NOTHING wrong with that.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes">
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">In equiripple designs we have the powerful “alternation theorem” to tell us WHEN we have “found” an acceptable ER solution (at least - close enough).
<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>At the same time, the mathematicians assure us (prove!) that we will never find closed form!<span style="mso-spacerun:yes">
</span>(Don’t you hate it when you are shown that they are right?)<o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">What happens (if you know) if you terminate after just a couple of iterations?<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> That is: </span>How does convergence progress?<o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">-Bernie<o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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