John D'Errico

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(Don't contact me. I won't answer questions.) A retired mathematician, numerical animalist, woodworker, bridge player.

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How can I create a function with random imputs? I have to create a function called tri_area that returns the area of a triangle with abse b and heigh h, where b and h are input arguments of the function in that order
I think you may be confused. I believe what is asked is for a function with ARBITRARY inputs, in the sense it can be called with...

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The accuracy on my LSTM deep learning neural network will not exceed 62.96%
You have shown no data, so we cannot truly say if you are doing something wrong. However, it sounds as it what you are doing is:...

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how can i get a number as an answer?
You got a number. :) I know, its net a very useful looking number. As s floating point sym, use vpa. vpa((23401992239682647381...

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why does similar code generate complex numbers?
What, for example, are the THREE cube roots of a negative number? We can find them all as solutions to the equation syms x xs...

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Is there a tool for drawing diagrams that connect equations?
I don't think there is a tool in MATLAB that will take a set of equations in arbitrary order, and then create this diagram. Yo...

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How can ı solve this constraint optimization problem?
Many things you can do, but since this is your homework, and there are already answrs posted, I'll just suggest a couple of thin...

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USING MEX TO SPEED UP THE CODE
As a counterpoint, there are some issues to consider. Much of MATLAB is already compiled code, at least in the hard working part...

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help solving differential equations
I think you have multiple problems here, now that you claim to have the correct equation. DSOLVE finds an analytical solution to...

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Simplifying a algebraic or numeric expression to lowest possible power
The problem is, there are multiple solutions, because sqrt is not as simple a thing as you like. syms x >> y = sqrt(x.^2) y ...

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Install 2 instances of Matlab on the same PC
Yes, and no. I frequently have several old versions of MATLAB on my computer. Walter has many as I recall. The only issue is if ...

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Is there any method to calculate the inverse of matrix which changed a few values?
Bruno is correct in how to solve the problem, and also SOME of the issues with it. If you use this tool multiple times, the floa...

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wrong differential equation solution
Sorry. I don't know what you did incorrectly, but here is what I see. syms y(t) yalpha = (1/80)*(36*exp(-t) + 125*sin(t) -3*...

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How to limit calculation precision?
There are only two standard choices in MATLAB for floating point computations, and two ways to get round the problem. That is,...

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Question about Anderson-Darling (adtest)
Not using adtest. Like the Ford Model T, which Henry Ford sold in any color as long as the color you wanted was black, adtest te...

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Problem of ``sprandn'': the number of nonzero elements is inconsistent with density
Bruno has already explained why sprand/sprandn fail to produce the requested density of arrays. So this answer is here only to a...

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How to place a number (1) in a random position in Line 1 in a matrix of zeros?
M = zeros(10,10); M(1,randi(10)) = 1; However, if you had no idea how to solve a basic problem of matrix indexing, you REALLY ...

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find the std of each parameter after lsqlin
There are some issues that make this a little problematic. The main issue is if lsqlin finds itself butted up against a boundary...

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How do I remove the z variable in the polynomial equation?
What you don't understand is that IF you did what you want, the polynomial will become diffcult to use and difficult to evaluate...

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Can one run fminsearch on grids?
No. fminsearch presumes a continuously valued function, defined everywhere. You CANNOT use it to solve discrete problems. And ev...

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Why is 4-by-2 matrix compatible with 4-by-1 vector?
You are using .* to do the multiplication. NOT * which is the linear algebra operator. MATLAB extends the vector implicitly int...

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Fitting a Curve to an Uncurling Object
The curve fitting toolbox assumes the functions are SINGLE VALUED. There can only be ONE value of y for any x. If that is not tr...

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How fast is fminsearch over brute force? or How fminsearch deal with a local/global min?
How fast is it? Since brute force is an extremely poor method to solve anything (unless your name happens to be the incredible H...

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How to reduce dimension of griddedinterpolant?
whos Name Size Bytes Class Attributes eff_map 500x500 2000000 double ...

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GA vs patternsearch for Integer problem with equality constraints
An exitflag of -2 means that GA never even found a feasible starting point for your problem. A larger population size lets it ra...

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Can one run fminsearch for a function defined by cases?
Can you? Yes. Should you? This may sometimes be a poor idea, although it depends on the specific segment functions. Are the seg...

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Generating parings of numbers and the pairs must not contain the same numbers
As Bruno has said, you are looking for pseudo-random derangements. So just to add some interesting information about derangement...

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Int returns Int when decimals input
fw = ((k*l*vi)/c)*(((1+p*l)*vi)/c)^(k-1)*exp(-((1+p*l)*vi)/c)^k ; When k is some non-integer value, you are raising some non-tr...

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How to solve linear programming problem?
Second answer, since the problem has now completely changed. Again, MATLAB is still totally unnecessary. Since you will probabl...

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Why is it the answer from MATLAB is different from the other solving software? Where did I go wrong?
Usually when I see a confused question, where someone says "help, i got a strange answer", the reason is because they were not c...

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Extraction of values from a cfit object
When you do not know how to pull some information from a class, the best thing is to try using methods to learn what you can do....

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