Questions tagged [numerical-value]
Question relating numerical representations, operations and methods, including approximate results instead of exact symbolic results.
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Computing the Multivariate Normal density gives sometimes different values from in-built function
I'm trying to define the density of the Multivariate Normal distribution, since it will be faster to compute for greater dimensions (vectors of size 50 or more), specially when I have to do those ...
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Strange plot artifacts when plotting the underdamped oscialltor solution
I'm plotting something trivial; the solution to an underdamped harmonic oscilator:
$$x(t) = A_{0} \cos(\omega t) e^{-t/\tau}$$
In MM speak I say:
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Having problems with using TableForm to format a table
I want to make a table of various values of the logistic curve given by l[x_] := 1/(1 + E^((-k)*(x - \[Alpha]))).
In basic form, this is dead easy. However, I want ...
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Fitting a numerical function with another function that depends on parameters
I'd like to fit a branch of the Lambert function :
-ProductLog[-1, x]
in the interval $[-0.35,0]$ with a function of the form $-a\log(-bx)+c+d x$ or $-a\log(-x)+...
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Mathematica and IBVP mixing temporal and spatial derivatives
The following PDE's-system-solving code
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Increasing MaxExtraPrecision arbitrarily changes numerical result
I am trying to confirm that a function $f$ satisfies a particular differential equation of the type $D f=0$, for some differential operator $D$. I set $Df$ as Diffeq...
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How to extract the minimal value from NMinimize? [closed]
According to the manual, if I calculate
NMinimize[x^4 - 3 x^2 - x, x]
that returns {-3.51391, {x -> 1.30084}}, I can extract the minimal value -3.51391 using
<...
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High numerical precision failing [duplicate]
N[(1 - 2*6.674*6*10^13/(6371000*299792458^2))^(0.5), 20]
1.
What I expect:
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Functional fixed points (ie fixed point of mapping from function space C[0,1] to itself)
I am looking for some tips or guidance as to what machinery in mathematica can help me get at this problem numerically. I am looking for fixed points of a mapping, but the objects in question are ...
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Numerics & List Manipulation:ListCorrelate: yield $\{-f1 + f2, \dots, -f2 + f4, \dots\}$ from $\{f1, f2, f3, f4, f5\}$
The command
ListCorrelate[{-1, 1}, {f1, f2, f3, f4, f5}]
yields
{-f1 + f2, -f2 + f3, -f3 + f4, -f4 + f5}
is there any simple way to get
{-f1 + f2, -f1 + ...
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Help for Solving Two Equations For Two Unknows (from a Paper)
I am trying to reproduce numerically the results found in this paper: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/1707778
You don't necessarily need to read it. Basically I boils down to solving a two ...
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How to solve equation in integer numbers
I would like to solve an equation like this $\frac{\log(2)}{\log(3)}=\frac{n-0.5}{k-0.5}$ where $n$, $k$ are positive integers and $\log$ is natural logarithm. Of course, I can do only numerical ...
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Sampling data from numerical values of density distribution of nucleons
How could i sample my data which follows distribution if i have only numerical values of density distribution as an example data attached as in picture
I tried but do not know how to do it.
The data:...
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Low precision from function returning matrix
Got a function depending on single parameter "t" defined below which
returns a 2 by 2 matrix
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Second-order nonlinear boundary value problem
I am trying to follow this work, in which Eq. (11), the 2nd-order, nonlinear differential equation depends on a pair of parameters $ (\kappa, h) $. But now I only care about the case with a vanishing $...
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Solve a system of 4-th order polynomial equations (numerically)
I have a function defined on $ S^6 \times S^6 $ (two spheres embedded in $ \mathbb{R}^7 $ individually). Let us call this vector $ \vec{f}(\vec{x},\vec{y}) $, where $ \vec{x} $ and $ \vec{y} $ are ...
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Numerical precision problem
I have this simple code:
ep = 1 - 80000000000 (-(199999/200000) + 1/E^(1/200000))
ep // N
-8.27404*10^-8
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Finding zero linear combinations of polynomials (numerically)
I have two functions of real variables defined on two compact spaces
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Best practice when encountering “Indeterminate” when applying a value equal to infinity
I have the following equation, which equals 1 for positive values of $n$, but at $n = \inf$ the equation becomes indeterminate.
4 n (1 - 1/2) 1/2 (1/Sqrt[n])^2
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Why does NSolve give different results in different version of Mathematica?
I am working on a problem with a colleague who uses Mathematica v.10.2 while I have v.11.0 Student Edition. We are solving the exact same equations but get two slightly different results. Why would ...
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Numerical solution of a system of two exponential equations
I need to solve this two equations for x and y:
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Solving a system of equations with numerical approximation [closed]
Let a, b, c be vectors obtained with the function N and x, y be scalars. I have the equation:...
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equal expressions give different numerical result
I have two expressions, and they are really equal:
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Raising a negative number to a fractional power, why the result is different? [duplicate]
In the math theory, we know have
$$(x)^{\frac{m}{n}=}\sqrt[n]{x^m} \ ,$$
it means
$$(-1.5)^{\frac{1}{0.3}}=(-1.5)^{\frac{10}{3}}=\sqrt[3]{(-1.5)^{10}}=\sqrt[3]{1.5^{10}}\simeq 3.8634 \ .$$
But in ...
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On Ж, and the fine-structure constant
I'm trying to reproduce the results from a certain infamous paper that has been moving around the web for the last few days. The details are irrelevant.
This paper claims to have a closed-form ...
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Product of large number with a very small number returns zero because Mathematica sets the very small number equal to zero [closed]
I have a product Exp[-I*Pi*x]*BesselK[-1, 2.43*Ix]. Now, Exp[-I*Pi*x] grows larger and larger as $x$ increases for imaginary ...
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What is the acceptable error in numerical calculations? [closed]
I am doing a calculation where I try to simplify a very complicated complex function. I did this step by step and I checked that the numerical values that the function gets for certain values of the ...
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Taylor Series of numerical solution of FindRoot
I have found the inverse to the following equation by using FindRoot. I want to have a Taylor approximation (say starting from ...
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Suppress trailing 0s in numerical values
For example, this is what I want
In[1]:= N[Table[4^(i/4), {i, 1, 4}]]
Out[1]= {1.41421, 2., 2.82843, 4.}
But if I want a few more digits only from the irrational ...
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Is there a function that returns me the largest common divisor? [closed]
Is there a function that returns me the largest common divisor?
I tried this:
Intersection[Divisors[200], Divisors[280]] // Last
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How to test if a solution of NDSolve is positive
I want to solve a differential equation numerically and determine one of the parameters in the D.E. The goal is to determine $M$ such that the function goes asymptotically to zero or to put it in a ...
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Computing a sum with high precision
I am aware that a similar question has been asked, for example, here and here, but none of the proposed solutions solves my problem, so please wait before you mark this question as a duplicate.
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How do I to remove a factor of 1 [duplicate]
I evaluated
Subscript[ε, 1, 2] = 0.5 Subscript[γ, 1, 2]
2 μ Subscript[ε, 1, 2]
1. μ Subscript[γ, 1, 2]
How do I to remove ...
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How to make Mathematica show small and large results? [closed]
I have two equations with x=r+Log[-1+r] and v=(1-1/r)/r^3 forms. When I substitute ...
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Getting the coordinates of a specific point out of a plot [closed]
I have the following piece of code that in the first part calculates and plots a function and it uses it in the second part to perform an NDSolve. After that I am plotting two functions. What I would ...
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Fastest way to find roots and reproduce this result
I am trying to solve the following transcendental equation numerically with the given values and to reproduce the diagram attached below.
$0=\frac h2\sqrt{\left(\frac{\omega\cdot n_1}c\right)^2-\...
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How to avoid rounding error, when exporting numerical values
How to avoid the rounding error, when exporting data like this:
ra = Range[0.004, 0.074, 0.0005];
Export["range.txt", ra]
The result is this:
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How solve this equation and plot the results?
I want to solve the following function and get values for $\omega$.
$$\omega - \omega_{21} + i/\tau_{2} - s_{1}\alpha_{1}(\omega)[1+f(\omega)] = 0$$
The function $f(\omega)$ is the troublesome ...
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Numerical solution to integration of function which parameters define the integral limits
I have following equation:
$\int^{\delta_c}_{\delta_c-\pi}\sqrt{h^2_c(\cos(\delta_c)^2-\cos(\delta)^2+\Omega_c(\delta_c-\delta)}\text{d}\delta=\pi$,
where $\delta_c=\frac{1}{2}\arcsin\left(\frac{\...
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Numerical artifacts appearing ONLY on boundary of 3Dplots and not on Plot
I have a behavior with 3D plots I really don't understand and I would like to correct it.
I have a 2D function to plot, here is its graph with Plot3D :
We can see that on the top boundary of $\Delta ...
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Solve Laplace equation in Cylindrical - Polar Coordinates
Hey mathematica stackexchange!! I've got a (possibly stupid) problem. I've tried many things to no avail, and I've read every post I've found on Laplace's equation.
Background:
I'm trying to find the ...
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How to make Mathematica substitute exact numerical values of (derivatives) 2F1
I have a long output that contains Taylor expansion of some function. Some of the coefficients are combinations of the (derivatives of) 2F1 at nice integer values of the coefficients. I can see that ...
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Numerical error in compile, Strange behaviour in numerical evaluation
First of all, apologies for the large numbers, I couldn't find a working example for a far lower order and the zeros are necessary...
my problem is this:
I have a large polynomial (from high-order ...
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Partial Derivatives of numbers not evaluating?
I have code of the form
someFunction[xx_?VectorQ] := 1 + anotherFunction[xx]
myfunction[xx_?VectorQ]:= Sum[D[someFunction,xx[[a]]],{a,1,4}]
After this evaluates, ...
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How to convert a dollar fraction into a normal dollar amount
I'm trying to use Mathematica to compute compounded interest. I used Wolfram Alpha, and it gave me the code
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Function not evaluating to zero - numerical errors
I have a complex but analytical expression that should always evaluate to zero for certain values, but I'm getting strange numerical noise I think I can avoid. The problem seems to occur in a ...
