payoff_years.m

nonlinear eq routines in matlab

function varargout = payoff_years(x)
%
% 
%
%  [y]    = payoff_years(x)
%  [y,yp] = payoff_years(x)  returns the function value in y and 
%                            the derivative in yp
%
%  Matthias Heinkenschloss
%  Department of Computational and Applied Mathematics
%  Rice University
%  April 17, 2001
%

a = 100000;
p = 10000;
r = 0.06;

% return the function value
varargout{1} = a*(1+r).^x - p*((1+r).^x-1)./r;
if( nargout > 1 )
  % return the derivative as the second argument
  varargout{2} = a*(1+r).^x.*log(1+r) - p.*log(1+r)*(1+r).^x./r;
end