RosettaCodeData/Task/Standard-deviation/Common-Lisp/standard-deviation-1.lisp

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Common Lisp

(defun running-stddev ()
(let ((sum 0) (sq 0) (n 0))
(lambda (x)
(incf sum x) (incf sq (* x x)) (incf n)
(/ (sqrt (- (* n sq) (* sum sum))) n))))
CL-USER> (loop with f = (running-stddev) for i in '(2 4 4 4 5 5 7 9) do
(format t "~a ~a~%" i (funcall f i)))
NIL
2 0.0
4 1.0
4 0.94280905
4 0.8660254
5 0.97979593
5 1.0
7 1.3997085
9 2.0