How to generate a vector with the required values
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Luca Cerone
el 15 de Feb. de 2011
Respondida: Aneeza Aneeza
el 1 de Mzo. de 2021
Dear all, I just noticed that if I create a vector like x=[.1:.1:.9] the result apparently is the same as creating it manually as x=[.1 .2 .3 .4 .5 .6 .7 .8 .9]; but it is not like that!
For example
>> x=[.1:.1:.9]
x =
0.1000 0.2000 0.3000 0.4000 0.5000 0.6000 0.7000 0.8000 0.9000
>> x(3)==.3
ans =
0
how can you explain that? And how can I be sure to create vectors with the required values???
FIY I'm using Matlab 2009b on a Unix environment. Cheers, -Luca
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Jan
el 15 de Feb. de 2011
Should we vote this question, because it is asked very frequently? Or should we not vote it, because the best answer would be not to ask the question at all? (sorry for this illogical formulation)
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Davide Ferraro
el 15 de Feb. de 2011
The syntax:
x=[.1:.1:.9]
is creating a vector incrementally and due to Floating Point arithmetic approximation the obtained value may be different from the exact value from the vector definition.
Page, Troubleshooting Common Floating-Point Arithmetic Problems perfectly explains this with some possible approaches you may consider, especially if you are planning to do some "exact" comparison with ==.
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Bruno Luong
el 15 de Feb. de 2011
As Davide wrote, colon() operator will build the array by increment of the step (actually half incremental from both ends), and numerical errors will accumulate.
A more accurate way is using linspace(), which is computed by integer multiplication of the step.
a = linspace(0,1,11)
a == [0 0.1 0.2 0.3 0.4 0.5 0.6 0.7 0.8 0.9 1]
For what you want, probably the only way to get the exact value as command line is
a = eval('[0 0.1 0.2 0.3 0.4 0.5 0.6 0.7 0.8 0.9 1]')
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Jan
el 15 de Feb. de 2011
I assume the suggested EVAL method will increase the OP's misunderstanding of using floating point numbers in Matlab.
Aneeza Aneeza
el 1 de Mzo. de 2021
Create a table of conversions from m/h to ft/s. Start the mi/h column at 0 and end it at
100 mi/hr. Print 15 values in your table. (Note: 22 ft/s = 15 m/h)
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