John D'Errico
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Increase arithmetic precision in using Cardano formula
Either use roots to solve for the roots of the quartic, or be forced to use symbolic form for the solutions. Note that roots wil...
ungefär 10 timmar ago | 0
Chosing the step between lower bound and upper bound in genetic algorithm
Actually, this is simple. even trivial. Can you force a variable to take on integer valiues in GA? (yes) In the help for GA, I...
ungefär 10 timmar ago | 0
how to find the root of function?
Or do this: alpha=0.74; g =0.5; gamma=1.2; sigma=1; phi=0.8; epsilon_1=1.5; w_r= (epsilon_1-1)/epsilon_1; syms n_h a ...
4 dagar ago | 0
Optimizing 1 equation with 7 variables
You do understand this is likely impossible to do? If there are ANY solutions which satisfy the given equality, then there are ...
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Collatz Conjecture using for loop
Your code is close to a working algorithm. There are some issues truly good code would worry about. Could you ever have an over...
7 dagar ago | 2
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Hi everyone, i want to ask about curve fitting problem,
Invariably the data will vary by multiple orders of magnitude in such a problem. And that tends to imply the noise in your data ...
7 dagar ago | 1
Use a while loop to determine how many Fibonacci numbers are less than 100000.
What does your test do? That is... while x < 100000 Answer it tells when the INDEX of the Fibonacci number is less than 100000...
7 dagar ago | 0
I have a Matrix , and I want to multiply this Matrix with something so I can get zeros
Please stop posting answers when you are making only comments. In what you claim to have tried: A=[-3 6 -1 1 7;1 -2 2 3 -1;2 -...
8 dagar ago | 0
How to solve an equation system using a interp1-variable
interp1 is incompatible with symbolic parameters. You CANNOT use interp1 with solve. Period. So wherever you found that snippet ...
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I have the following code to calculate d/dx sin(0.5)) using first derivative principle and compare it with the real value. Why does err starts increasing again?
What are you doing? You used a simple forward difference to compute the derivative, as an approximation to the derivative of sin...
8 dagar ago | 1
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The running time of binary integer linear programming and linear programming
Why is there something "wrong"? It is unexpected for you. But this just comes down to two different problems, solved by differen...
10 dagar ago | 0
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Matlab only calculates values for only certain inputs in a matrix.
Except that is not how to use a loop. You want to compute the inverse of each value in the array. function convof= inverseof(x)...
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Am I understanding this correctly?
Yes. Colors that you would describe as red all have high values in the red channel, and small values in the green and blue chann...
10 dagar ago | 0
How to make constant to 1 in power function in curve fitting toolbox
Before you EVER make any fit to data, PLOT IT!!!!!!!! Plot your data. Then plot it in another way, until you have drained all th...
11 dagar ago | 0
fsolve doesn't find a solution when the value of the objective function is obtained through a Montecarlo simulation
Is your objective function a differentiable result of the parameters? If not, then fsolve cannot solve the problem. Fsol ve requ...
11 dagar ago | 0
How to create a vector of symbolic variables with specific labeling
The simple direct way seems easiest. v = sym('v',[1 29]); v = v([1 2 3 5 7 9 10 12 18 29])
12 dagar ago | 0
Unable to plot exponential graphs properly
What do you reasonably expect to happen? t varies over the interval -10 and 400. What is exp(-10)? If you don't know, then try ...
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Plot graph of polynomials
That is not a polynomial. You have a sqrt root in there. And an absolute value. So learn how to use functions like abs, and sqr...
15 dagar ago | 1
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Can someone explain to me why I'm getting "Not enough input arguments" in line 2
For the simple reason that you named a function named size. Don't do this. Type this at the command line: which size -all If i...
15 dagar ago | 0
Solving a system of equations with arbitrary Parameter value
Look carefullly at what is returned. solution = solve(eqn_final, variable_final, "ReturnConditions", true); solution solution...
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why PSI values are diffrent when nlmefit using ode45 solver compared to when it uses analytical solution?
There can sometimes be problems when you try to apply a nonlinear estimation scheme on top of an ODE solver. The nonlinear fitti...
16 dagar ago | 0
I don't know how to call my function
What language are you using here? Possibly not MATLAB. :) s = s + L*(i)^2; Do you think that squares the number i, and then mu...
16 dagar ago | 0
How efficient is it to use (end+1) to add a value to an array?
Increasing the size of an array incrementally is a TERRIBLE thing to do. WHY? Every time you add a new element to the end of t...
16 dagar ago | 1
How to use ~= operator as constraint function?
For which solver? This is a 1-variable problem. If you want help, it does help if you explain more than you have done. Note tha...
17 dagar ago | 1
solve efficiently sparse large linear system of equations
The fact is, a 3kx3k system is not that slow to solve. So unless you are doing this solve many thousands of times, keeping it sp...
17 dagar ago | 0
Matlab envelope function help
Seems pretty easy. Read the help, and look at the examples. Envelope is part of the signal processing toolbox. t = linspace(0,5...
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Solving equations for Variable/Variable
No reason you cannot do this: syms A B C D E eqn = (A*B*C)/E == D; syms CoverD solve(subs(eqn,C,CoverD*D),CoverD)
19 dagar ago | 0
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Am I to understand that every function in matlab should be its own file?
Like SOME languages. Perhaps the ones you know. But certainly not all other languages. In general, yes, it is not unreasonable ...
20 dagar ago | 1
Find Image SVD without using SVD command
Too late for an answer to the question posed, but since the question is getting comments asking for more help, I'll post an answ...
20 dagar ago | 1
How to find the closed form solution of the natural and forced response of 2sin(3t) - 4x with x(0) = 0
Why do you think it is not correct? Would dsolve lie? That dsolve code must be pretty darn tricky. In fact, you have not used d...
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