Mathematica 2014

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Graph 2 - a plot of y sequence values against k

2.4

2

1.6

1.2

0.8

0.4

0

-0.4

-0.8

0

5

10 15 20 25 30 35 40 45 50

k

It is not surprising that the y values have been driven to zero since

. Furthermore it can be shown that

δ

−=

sgn(

)

y

k

k

n

∑ + = δ

k

, 2

y

y

x

+

1

0

0

n

k

=

0

k

n

k

−=

δ

. 2

z

+

1

n

k

=

0

k

Thus,

x y

1 + + + = n n z x y . 1

0

0

0

x y

x y

y

+

0

1

0

n

= − and hence

It follows that

, since the

n y values

z

z

+

+

1

1

n

n

x

0

0

0

are driven to zero for sufficiently large n.

The more interested reader should read the paper by Edwards and Underwood [2] for a more detailed analysis on the convergence of the CORDIC method for more complicated functions.

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