Interactive input? and sorting FindRoot list
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- Subject: [mg637] Interactive input? and sorting FindRoot list
- From: REECE_D <REECE+_D%A1%Electromagnetic_Sciences at mcimail.com>
- Date: Mon, 3 Apr 95 11:03 EST
Two questions:
1) Is there a way to have a module execute up to a point, ask the user
for input and then continue?
2) How does one take a list of roots returned from
Table[FindRoot[eq, i], {i,x0,x1,di}] and return only the unique roots?
The problem I am encountering is that FindRoot will return two or more
versions of the same root so Union sees them as distinct while in reality
they are approximations to the same root. I've tried N[] and
SetPrecision[] with no luck.
I am trying to write a module which will calculate a characteristic
equation, plot it, prompt the user for approximate distance between roots
and then return the first n roots. I could eliminate the plot and prompt
if I knew of a robust method to calculate the first n roots of the
characteristic equation.
Any help/ideas on these questions would be greatly appreciated.
Daryl