Re: Solve Feature?
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- Subject: [mg52804] Re: Solve Feature?
- From: Andrzej Kozlowski <akoz at mimuw.edu.pl>
- Date: Mon, 13 Dec 2004 04:23:31 -0500 (EST)
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O.K., I should have written I have no idea how NSolve works so I am
"not very surprised" ;-)
Andrzej
On 12 Dec 2004, at 14:13, DrBob wrote:
>>> As for the NSolve example, I am not very surprised. This,
>>> as far as I know, uses numerical Groebner basis which
>>> I think is vulnerable to numerical errors.
>
> Inputs identical to 14-15 decimals, and outputs off by 17 orders of
> magnitude? For the intersection of two quadratics? Yikes!!
>
> Bobby
>
> On Sun, 12 Dec 2004 10:18:37 +0900, Andrzej Kozlowski
> <akoz at mimuw.edu.pl> wrote:
>
>> *This message was transferred with a trial version of CommuniGate(tm)
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>> The Solve case is indeed very puzzling. The reason why it is puzzling
>> is this.
>>
>> ls = {(-50 + x)^2 + (-50 + y)^2 == 156.25,
>> (-50.00000000000002 + x)^2 +
>> (-37.49999999999999 + y)^2 == 156.25}
>>
>> gr = GroebnerBasis[ls /. Equal -> Subtract, {x, y}];
>>
>>
>> sols1 = Solve[gr == 0, {x, y}]
>>
>>
>> {{y -> 43.7499999999999, x -> 39.17468245269449},
>> {y -> 43.7499999999999, x -> 60.82531754730555}}
>>
>> This is what I have always believed Solve actually does (Daniel ???).
>> But of course it isn't true here:
>>
>> sols = Solve[ls, {x, y}]
>>
>> {{x -> 16., y -> 43.74999999999993},
>> {x -> 84., y -> 43.75000000000004}}
>>
>> Looks like a bug to me.
>>
>> The answer we get using GroebnerBasis is indeed very close to that
>> given by using Rationalize, but curiously is not quite identical to
>> it.
>>
>>
>> sols = N[Solve[Rationalize[ls], {x, y}]]
>>
>>
>> {{x -> 39.17468245269452, y -> 43.75},
>> {x -> 60.82531754730548, y -> 43.75}}
>>
>> sols1 and sols are close enough for Mathematica to consider them
>> equal:
>>
>> ({x, y} /. sols1) == ({x, y} /. sols)
>>
>> True
>>
>> However:
>>
>>
>> ls /. sols1
>>
>> Out[6]=
>> {{True, True}, {False, True}}
>>
>> while
>>
>> ls /. sols
>>
>> Out[7]=
>> {{True, True}, {True, True}}
>>
>> This is somewhat unpleasant.
>>
>> All this seems odd. I have beleived the follwoing to be true. Solve
>> uses GroebnerBasis to solve systems of polynomial equations. To use
>> Groebner basis the polynomials have to be rationalized. That suggests
>> that there should be no difference between the above results. What is
>> going on?
>>
>> As for the NSolve example, I am not very surprised. This, as far as I
>> know, uses numerical Groebner basis which I think is vulnerable to
>> numerical errors.
>>
>> Andrzej
>>
>>
>>
>> On 12 Dec 2004, at 08:25, DrBob wrote:
>>
>>> *This message was transferred with a trial version of CommuniGate(tm)
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>>> By the way, it gets even worse if I use NSolve:
>>>
>>> solution = NSolve[{c1, c5}]
>>> {c1, c5} /. solution
>>> Apply[Subtract, {c1, c5}, {1}] /. solution
>>>
>>> {{x -> -4.27759132*^8,
>>> y -> 43.74999927054117},
>>> {x -> 4.2775924*^8,
>>> y -> 43.75000072945884}}
>>> {{False, False}, {False, False}}
>>> {{1.82977917785309*^17,
>>> 1.82977917785309*^17},
>>> {1.8297792462945597*^17,
>>> 1.8297792462945597*^17}}
>>>
>>> These are simple polynomial equations, so this is really puzzling.
>>>
>>> Bobby
>>>
>>> On Sat, 11 Dec 2004 17:15:30 -0600, DrBob <drbob at bigfoot.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> HELP!! Here are two very simple quadratic equations (circles):
>>>>
>>>> {c1, c5} = {(-50 + x)^2 + (-50 + y)^2 == 156.25,
>>>> (-50.00000000000002 + x)^2 +
>>>> (-37.49999999999999 + y)^2 == 156.25};
>>>>
>>>> If we rationalize before solving, we get accurate solutions:
>>>>
>>>> solution = Solve@Rationalize@{c1, c5}
>>>> solution // N
>>>> {c1, c5} /. solution
>>>> Subtract @@@ {c1, c5} /. solution
>>>>
>>>> {{x -> (25/4)*(8 - Sqrt[3]), y -> 175/4},
>>>> {x -> (25/4)*(8 + Sqrt[3]), y -> 175/4}}
>>>> {{x -> 39.17468245269452, y -> 43.75},
>>>> {x -> 60.82531754730548, y -> 43.75}}
>>>> {{True, True}, {True, True}}
>>>> {{-4.263256414560601*^-14, 4.973799150320701*^-13},
>>>> {-4.263256414560601*^-14, -4.263256414560601*^-13}}
>>>>
>>>> You can check this visually with ImplicitPlot:
>>>>
>>>> ImplicitPlot[{c1, c5}, {x, -40, 70}]
>>>>
>>>> But if we solve without Rationalize, we get wildly inaccurate
>>>> results:
>>>>
>>>> solution = Solve@{c1, c5}
>>>> {c1, c5} /. solution
>>>> Subtract @@@ {c1, c5} /. solution
>>>>
>>>> {{x -> 16., y -> 43.74999999999993},
>>>> {x -> 84., y -> 43.75000000000004}}
>>>> {{False, False}, {False, False}}
>>>> {{1038.812500000001, 1038.8125000000005},
>>>> {1038.8124999999995, 1038.8124999999993}}
>>>>
>>>> I'm using version 5.1.
>>>>
>>>> Bobby
>>>
>>>
>>>
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>>>
>>
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