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IF statement if == "A variable" not working

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Shasha Dra
Shasha Dra el 15 de Abr. de 2024
Comentada: Stephen23 el 15 de Abr. de 2024
Trying to do a heat conduction simulation my and my IF statement not working
I have a variable called 'b' which equal to 'maximum timestep - 1' and I want to use and IF to record maximum temperature
The IF statement not working when I use IF == b, but works with IF = 9999
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Stephen23
Stephen23 el 15 de Abr. de 2024
"IF statement if == "A variable" not working"
IF statement is working: you are comparing two different values, ergo EQ returns FALSE. You need to learn how to work with binary floating point numbers. For example, either ROUND the result or compare the absolute difference against a tolerance:
abs(A-B)<tol
This is a completely expected result with binary floating point numbers:
This is worth reading as well:
and also a brief overview of the topic:

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Fangjun Jiang
Fangjun Jiang el 15 de Abr. de 2024
Editada: Fangjun Jiang el 15 de Abr. de 2024
Most likely it is a floating point data equal comparison problem. b is somewhere near 9999 but not exactly. Use round() or integer data type.
a=1-1/3
a = 0.6667
b=2/3
b = 0.6667
a==b
ans = logical
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Voss
Voss el 15 de Abr. de 2024
"The IF statement not working when I use IF == b, but works with IF = 99999"
The behavior is not the same when using b vs when using 99999 because b is not exactly equal to 99999.
format long g
T= 1; %simulation time seconds
del_t= 1E-5; %time step size
N = T/del_t %Number of time discretization
N =
100000
b=(T/del_t)-1 % N-1
b =
99999
b looks like it is equal to 99999, but it's not.
b == 99999 % nope
ans = logical
0
It's actually slightly smaller:
fprintf('%.40f',b)
99998.9999999999854480847716331481933593750000
Consider the behavior of the following two loops:
counter = 1;
counter_hit_b = false;
while counter < N
counter = counter+1;
if counter == b
counter_hit_b = true;
end
end
disp(counter_hit_b)
0
counter = 1;
counter_hit_99999 = false;
while counter < N
counter = counter+1;
if counter == 99999
counter_hit_99999 = true;
end
end
counter_hit_99999
counter_hit_99999 = logical
1
The counter is 99999 at some point, but it is never b.
To get the right behavior using b instead of hard-coding 99999, you can define b to be exactly 99999 by using round.
b = round(T/del_t-1)
b =
99999
fprintf('%.40f',b)
99999.0000000000000000000000000000000000000000
b == 99999 % now b is exactly 99999
ans = logical
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