I am newbie in Ruby, I cannot find the bug on my financial program.
The question is related to local variable in block.
Here is a quick example:
a = 5000
r = 0.06
p = 100
(1…5).each {|i|
puts "#{i}\t#{a}\t#{ar}\t#{p}" # <-- the #{a} is not print
correctly, why?
a -= (p - ar)
}
Thanks for help.
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Below is my financial program, skip it if you are not interesting.
In fact, I want to know how the bank calcule the payment per year for
a loan.
Below is my quick and throw away program. You can play it.
BTW: If anyone know the web site to do this calculation. (Maybe some
formula out there)
My result still a little bit different then the bank.
(because tax? or other fee charge by the bank … )
=begin
Calculate the payment for loan.
This program try to find out the payment per year.
It uses array of 2 elements to simulate symbolic algebra
calculation.
[x,y] => x is real value, y is coefficient of payment per year.
Note: no robust error checking for input value. GUI todo.
=end
#Re-define Array for our use. Note, it may-be better create our own
class.
class Array
def (int)
self.map{|x| xint}
end
def +(array)
x = self.dup
self.each_index{|i| x[i] += array[i]}
x
end
def -(array)
self + (array * -1)
end
end
print "Capital = ? "
capital_in = gets.to_i
capital = [capital_in, 0] # to our format
print "Years = ? "
years = gets.to_i
print "interest rate = ? "
rate = gets.to_f
calculate the sum of each year’s interest
sum_int = [0,0]
(1…years).each {
interest = capital * rate
sum_int += interest
capital -= ([0,1] - interest) # [0,1] means the payment for a year
}
Now, find out what is exactly the payment per year (= X).
We have formula like: total payment = capital + sum interest
==> years * payment/years = capital_in + sum_int
==> years * X = capital_in + [total interest, coef of X ]
==> years * X = capital_in + sum_int[0] + sum_int[1] * X
==> X = (capital_in + sum_int[0]) / (years - sum_int[1])
payment = (capital_in + sum_int[0]) / (years - sum_int[1])
now, output in good format.
puts “-” * 30
puts "you loan from bank:"
puts "capital = #{capital_in}"
puts "years = #{years}"
puts "interest rate = #{rate}"
puts
puts "payment/year = #{payment}, payment/month = #{payment/12}"
puts “total payment = #{paymentyears}"
puts "total bank gain = #{paymentyears-capital_in}”
#=begin More detail information for each year
capital = capital_in
puts “\nYear\tCapital\tInterest\tPayment”
(1…years).each {|year|
# puts "#{year}\t#{capital}\t#{capitalrate}\t#{payment}" # <–
the #{capital} is not print correctly, why ??
printf “%i\t%.2f\t%.2f\t%.2f\n”, year, capital, (capitalrate),
payment
capital -= (payment - capital*rate)
}
#=end