Re: FindRoot
- To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
- Subject: [mg31484] Re: [mg31463] FindRoot
- From: Mianlai Zhou <lailai at nikhef.nl>
- Date: Thu, 8 Nov 2001 04:54:19 -0500 (EST)
- Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com
Hi,
It is because that FindRoot has an attribute HoldAll, i.e., it will not
evaluate its arguments until it starts to try to find the roots (replacing
x by number). Therefore, you have to change as follows to get what you
want:
In[5]:= FindRoot[Evaluate @ f[1], {x, 0}]
Good luck!
Mianlai Zhou
Theory Group, NIKHEF
Amsterdam, the Netherlands
On Wed, 7 Nov 2001 Pieter-Jan.DeSmet at fys.kuleuven.ac.be wrote:
> Dear Sir,
>
> Can you clarify the following error message?
>
> In[3]:= f[i_] := x == i
>
> In[5]:= FindRoot[f[1], {x, 0}]
>
> FindRoot::frnum: Function {False} is not a length 1 list of
> numbers at {x} = {0.}.
>
> Out[5]=FindRoot[f[1], {x, 0}]
>
>
> This is a simplified version of an error message I got in a more
> difficult case. I hope that I have not made a stupid mistake.
>
> Thank you very much
>
> Pieter-Jan De Smet
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