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Re: Help using Compile with Solve

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  • Subject: [mg879] Re: Help using Compile with Solve
  • From: danl (Daniel Lichtblau)
  • Date: Thu, 27 Apr 1995 01:51:42 -0400
  • Organization: Wolfram Research, Inc.

In article <3n9t75$poj at news0.cybernetics.net> Bill Harbaugh  
<harbaugh at students.wisc.edu> writes:
> I want to create a compiled function that uses Solve, like this
> 
> (IN)
> t1=Compile[{x,y},Solve[x+y==z,z]]
> 
> (OUT)
> CompiledFunction[{x, y}, Solve[x + y == z, z], -CompiledCode-]
> 
> (IN)
> t1[1,1]
> 
> (OUT)
> CompiledFunction::ccr: 
>    Expression z should be a machine-size real number.
> CompiledFunction::cfex: 
>    External evaluation error at instruction 5; proceeding with
>      uncompiled evaluation.
> 
> {{z -> 2}}
> 
> 
> As you can see, this doesn't work as a compiled function.  
> It seems like I need to tell Compile that z is also real, but 
> I'm not sure how to do that.
> 
> Thanks, Bill
> 

  Compile can only be used on numeric functions e.g. Cos[#]. Solve is not  
a numeric function.

  Daniel Lichtblau, WRI




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