ordinary/accumulator recursion

[Ketil Malde]

"Randles" <srandles@bigpond.net.au> writes:

> Hi, Im a computer science undergraduate and we are studying haskell
> as part of our course. I have a question on recursion that i'd like
> to receive some sort of answer to.

Are you a tutor, then, since you'd like to receive answers, rather
than working them out yourself?

> The question is to write a function to sum the first n terms in the series:

> 1/1 + 1/3 + 1/5+ .. + 1/(2n-1)

> using ordinary recursion and then using accumulator recursion.

I can think of several ways.  For instance, given n as a parameter,
work out the nth term, and make a recursive call thus calculating the
sequence in reverse. 

This should be fairly easy to extend with an accumulator, too.

You might get bonus points if you write a function using sum, take,
and map (hint: [1,3..]), or even generate an infinite list of
successive partial sums, and use (!!n) for the result.

> Please help!

But of course!

-kzm
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