John D'Errico

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A retired applied mathematician, consultant, sometime mechanical engineer, numerical analyst, woodworker, bridge player. Please DON'T contact me, as too many students then decide I am their personal consultant if I allow it. I won't do consulting by mail.

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Fsolve produces comlex numbers
Remember that fsolve does not allow constraints. Not even bound constraints. So when one of the variables tries to go into a bad...

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Optimisation Algorithm and Levenberg-Marquardt for fitglm in MATLAB
The important thing you need to recognize is that fitglm fits a LINEAR model. No nonlinear iterations will be performed. fitgl...

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error in the process of symbol operation of the matrix
Why do you think there is something wrong with T? We don't know why you wrote this code. It computes what you told MATLAB to com...

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Is it possible to plot a curve with changing colours under a single plot?
Arguably, this is something the line function would allow you to do. But line allows you to specify only a single color for an e...

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Find value at which a line changes its slope
There is NO exact point where that can be known to happen. Your curve is noisy. At best, you can estimate where the curve start...

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How do I get random variables generated from a distribution in [-1, 1]?
The MATLAB crystal ball is foggy today. You give us a tiny fragment of code, and then tell us that something strange happens. PR...

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Can Simulink use symbolic constants (syms x, y, z) or only numerical values (x=1, y=2, z=3) are accepted ?
NO. Simulink will NOT use symbolic parameters. Sorry. Simulink is essentially a numerical solver. It does not perform symbolic c...

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three order complex coefficient polynomial root matlab
Another classic solution is to find the matrix that has the same eigenvalues as your polynomial has roots. Then use eig to compu...

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Problem with making cash change
Now that you have an answer, I'll add one that is not solved the way you would do so, but using an ILP solver, so an Integer Lin...

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How do I code for optimization of max volume of box?
It would arguably be a good time to learn about something called Lagrange multipliers. They allow you to build constraints into ...

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write down a function
There is no "function". It sounds as if, given vectors x and h, you want to know what the function would have been, as if MATLAB...

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Using find to determine equality not of scalars, but vectors
This is not really the province of find. Yes, you can break an egg with a hammer, but it is not really the right tool for the pu...

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How to do a Taylor expansion with a matrix
You cannot compute the Taylor series of a constant. You CAN compute a Taylor series, and then evaluate it at that constant value...

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Is it possible to truncate a vector to form one of lower dimension?
You have two choices. First, you can extract the elements you want. Or you can delete the elements you wnat to drop. For example...

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Most efficient way to put vector on the off-diagonal of the blocks of a block matrix
The most efficient way? SPDIAGS. help spdiags For example, to create a 6x6 sparse matrix, with an upper and lower diagonal ele...

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xy+y^5+3=0 My input is real x, from this implicit equation y will have both real and imag values for each x I want to plot a 3 D plot where z will represent imag y. Pleasehelp
Simple enough. Just do exactly what you asked. Remember the roots of a 5th degree polynomial will in general have no algebraic s...

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How do I fit two data sets to each other?
This is a classic problem of calibration. You have two curves, one of which must be shifted (translated) to the other. In some c...

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Pick a value with some probability
Please stop asking the same question. There is NO way to know what distribution any set of data comes from. You can use tools to...

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Why is the calculated Rsquare different between the embedded fit function and the EzyFit function (from File Exchange)?
Do you understand that R^2 is not valid, when computed for a model with no constant term? Instead, I recall there are variations...

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I wanna implement this function, but it says there is an syntax error..
What langiuage are you using when you end a function with the statement endfunction? Not MATLAB. As well, IF you had posted the...

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non-numerical answer for solving complex non-linear equation
I think you do not understand how variables work in MATLAB. Variables are dynamically assigned. When you assign them as you have...

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Can I use my student license for and at work?
I would guess the answer is technically no. But it is arguable either way as long as you remain a student, IF when you are on co...

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A single precision matrix multiplication problem
Why are you confused? NEVER trust the least significant bits of a floating point number. The numbers in a are singles. So the l...

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I am stuck in making the pentadiagonal matrix A
This sort of thing is a BAD idea: A = A+spdiags(s_vec, 0, (nx+1)*(ny+1), (nx+1)*(ny+1)); % Add s to the main diagonal of A XX_...

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Find the derivative of a spline curve obtained using cscvn
No. There is no simple "function" of a spline. It is a mess of coefficients that by themselves are fairly meaningless to those w...

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Fitting powerlaw between two points
Given two points exactly, thus: yx = [0.047 100; 0.0382 0.1933]; y1 = yx(:,1); x1 = yx(:,2); You want the power law cur...

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How to combine the trapezoidal rule with interpolation in ode23t function
A FREE interpolant is one where the nodes are not fixed in advance. For example, suppose I choose to interpolate sin(x), on th...

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How to get the combination "nCk", if either n or k is a variable.
if x(3) is NOT an integer, then what do you expect? If x(3) is NOT at least as large as d, then what do you expect? In either...

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Fitting 3D data into a function
The curve fitting toolbox does not fit models with more than 2 independent variables. You can use my polyfitn tool, found on th...

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How to solve exponential variables
The problem is, you have been trying to SOLVE them. More approproately, you want to use a tool that will FIT your model to the...

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