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Re: Symbolica package warning: Using rat() heuristics for double-precisi


From: Colin Macdonald
Subject: Re: Symbolica package warning: Using rat() heuristics for double-precision input (is this what you wanted?)
Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2017 09:43:02 -0800
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On 17/02/17 08:18, Doug Stewart wrote:
    I am thinking of putting this on the wiki.

Good idea!  I can help edit.

But first, the essential pattern here is:

1.  Do a symbolic calculation (in this case, a derivative)
2.  Evaluate that result for double values.

"subs" is not really the right tool for this. It makes symbolic substitutions.

Perhaps the right pattern here is:

>> df = diff(...)
>> dfh = function_handle(df)
>> dfh(3.1415927)

Here "dfh" is a regular plain-old Octave anonymous function, can be evaluated efficiently for doubles, etc.

Note: you can also write this as "dfh = matlabFunction(df)" for compatibility with the Matlab Symbolic Toolbox.

There is some discussion about all this in https://github.com/cbm755/octsympy/issues/121

cheers,
Colin




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