10 REM ROCKET.BAS by Brian Tung 20 REM 30 DEFDBL A-Z 40 A=1.032: REM Earth gravity in light-years per year squared 50 INPUT "Distance in light-years (0-100 million)"; D 60 IF D>=0 AND D<=100000000 THEN 80 70 PRINT "Distance must be between 0 and 100 million l-y": GOTO 50 80 D1=D/2 90 T=SQR(D1*D1+(2*D1/A)) 100 X=A*T 110 M=1: REM Lines 110-180 compute inverse sinh 120 IF X<0 THEN M=-1 130 S=LOG(ABS(X)+1) 140 S1=S+1 150 X1=(EXP(S)-EXP(-S))/2-ABS(X) 160 S1=X1/(EXP(S)+EXP(-S))/2 170 S=S-S1 180 IF ABS(S1)>.0000001 THEN 150 190 T1=1/A*S*M 200 V=A*T/SQR(1+(A*T)*(A*T)) 210 PRINT USING "Time on Earth: #########.### years"; 2*T 220 PRINT USING "Time on board: #########.### years"; 2*T1 230 Z$ = "Top speed: #.###" 240 IF D<1 THEN 280 250 Z1=INT(2*LOG(D)/LOG(10)) 260 IF D>=1 AND D<10000000 THEN Z$=Z$+STRING$(Z1,"#") 270 IF D>=10000000 THEN Z$=Z$+"#############" 280 Z$=Z$+" c" 290 PRINT USING Z$; V 300 END 900 REM --------------------------- 910 REM APPEARED IN COMPUTERS IN 920 REM ASTRONOMY, SKY & TELESCOPE, 930 REM FEBRUARY 2002, PAGE 66 940 REM ---------------------------