Re: a simple Friday question

[Martin Maechler <maechler@stat.math.ethz.ch>]

>>>>> "AndyL" == Liaw, Andy <andy_liaw@merck.com>
>>>>>     on Fri, 24 Mar 2006 20:15:23 -0500 writes:

    AndyL> Something like this, perhaps:
    >> cumprod(rep(1.1, 5))
    AndyL> [1] 1.10000 1.21000 1.33100 1.46410 1.61051

Friday, indeed;
usually Andy would have used

  > 1.1 ^ (1:5)

Martin

    AndyL> Andy

    AndyL> From: Chris Moyer
    >> 
    >> 
    >> Hello-
    >> 
    >> It must be Friday... the answer to this simple question
    >> completely escapes me. I need to create a sequence of
    >> numbers in which each subsequent number is a percentage
    >> increase (say 10 % ) of the previous number such as:
    >> 
    >> 1 1.1 1.21 1.33 etc.
    >> 
    >> I'm using S-PLUS 6 on Win 2000.
    >> 
    >> Thanks in advance for any suggestions.
    >> 
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