spectral-norm description

Background

MathWorld: "Hundred-Dollar, Hundred-Digit Challenge Problems", Challenge #3.

Thanks to Sebastien Loisel for suggesting this task.

How to implement

We ask that contributed programs not only give the correct result, but also use the same algorithm to calculate that result.

Each program should:

• calculate the spectral norm of an infinite matrix A, with entries a₁₁=1, a₁₂=1/2, a₂₁=1/3, a₁₃=1/4, a₂₂=1/5, a₃₁=1/6, etc

• implement 4 separate functions / procedures / methods like the Java program

diff program output N = 100 with this output file to check your program output has the correct format, before you contribute your program.

Use a larger command line argument (5500) to check program performance.