Re: now, while loops construct errors
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- Subject: [mg44306] Re: now, while loops construct errors
- From: poujadej at yahoo.fr (Jean-Claude Poujade)
- Date: Wed, 5 Nov 2003 10:00:29 -0500 (EST)
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- Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com
sean kim <sean_incali at yahoo.com> wrote in message news:<bo5sfg$m9$1 at smc.vnet.net>... > hello group. > > ok. Long post once again. with multiple part question. > > > part 1. > > now I have problems with constructing a while loop > under contraint. > > This post also deals with picking random numbers under > a constraint. (I need to do this for a solve routine I > have developed for an ode system) > > Peter and Daniel has used "While" effectively with > previous post, so I thought I would just modify their > codes to come up with something suits my needs in this > case. but it's not working out as i hoped. > > I'm trying to pick randome numbers for a pair such > that the ratio of the two random numbers picked are > between a range given. > > So with v1 and d1, the ratio has to be between 10^-8 > and 10^-4. I have implemented this as follows. > > In[395]:= > dv:= Module[{v1n, d1n}, > While[ > (v1n=10^ Random[Real,{-12,-7}]); > (d1n=10^ Random[Real,{-6,-4}]); > 10^-8<= (v1n/d1n)<= 10^-4 ]; > {v1 -> v1n, d1 -> d1n, v1n/d1n//ScientificForm}] > > Do[Print[dv], {n, 1, 10}] > The test is a 'go on' test and your dv module should therefore be written this way : dv := Module[{v1n, d1n}, While[(v1n = 10^Random[Real, {-12, -7}]); (d1n = 10^Random[Real, {-6, -4}]); Not[10^-8 <= (v1n/d1n) <= 10^-4] ]; {v1 -> v1n, d1 -> d1n, v1n/d1n // ScientificForm}]; --- jcp