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extracting the information from Solve

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  • Subject: [mg27784] extracting the information from Solve
  • From: "Martin Richter" <mrMICE.fi at cbs.dk>
  • Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2001 04:37:38 -0500 (EST)
  • Organization: UNI-C
  • Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com

Hi,

I really don't know why I'm so bad programming in Mathematica :-(  Here goes
my problem. I have 12 linear equation, 13 variables, and Mathematica (4.1)
gives the following:


f[t_] = a[0] + Sum[a[i]*Cos[2*Pi*i*t] + b[i]*Sin[2*Pi*i*t], {i, 1, 6}];
seasonTab = {{0/12, -0.5}, {1/12, -.2}, {2/12, -0.5}, {3/12, -0.5}, {4/12,
        0. - .25}, {5/12, 0.1}, {6/12, 0.5}, {7/12, 0.7}, {8/12,
        1.1}, {9/12, -0.3}, {10/12, -0.7}, {11/12, -0.6}};
equation =
    Solve[{f[0/12] == seasonTab[[1, 2]], f[1/12] == seasonTab[[2, 2]],
        f[2/12] == seasonTab[[3, 2]], f[3/12] == seasonTab[[4, 2]],
        f[4/12] == seasonTab[[5, 2]], f[5/12] == seasonTab[[6, 2]],
        f[6/12] == seasonTab[[7, 2]], f[7/12] == seasonTab[[8, 2]],
        f[8/12] == seasonTab[[9, 2]], f[9/12] == seasonTab[[10, 2]],
        f[10/12] == seasonTab[[11, 2]], f[11/12] == seasonTab[[12, 2]]}];
equation


\!\({{a[0] -> \(-0.09583333333333333`\), a[1] -> \(-0.5684401076758503`\),
      a[2] -> 0.16249999999999998`, a[3] -> 0.17500000000000002`,
      a[4] -> \(-0.10416666666666667`\), a[5] -> \(-0.10655989232414972`\),
      a[6] -> 0.03750000000000004`, b[1] -> \(-0.2159882023920174`\),
      b[3] -> 6.543001678297708`*^-17, b[5] -> 0.11598820239201749`,
      b[2] -> 0.3680607966083864`, b[4] -> \(-0.07938566201357357`\)}}\)

My problem is that a[i] and b[i] is only defines by a rule and not by the
values, so evaluating f[1] doesn't put in the values of a[i] and b[i]. I
want to assign the numbers to the a and b list so that a[0]=-0.095833333,...

Of course, you can do it manually. I thought that a simple loop would do but
the list is not sorted, b[3] is coming before b[2]. I have been looking in
the Mathematica book, specially about Rule, Sort and equation but for no
good.

So, can you Sort or assign in a simple way

FIA
Martin

ps. Is Mathematica written in C++ ?

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