Re: RSolve and complex solutions
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- Subject: [mg54711] Re: [mg54693] RSolve and complex solutions
- From: Andrzej Kozlowski <akoz at mimuw.edu.pl>
- Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2005 03:26:57 -0500 (EST)
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On 27 Feb 2005, at 07:29, Skirmantas wrote: > It may be a basic math question, but it would be helpful if somebody > could briefly comment on it. If I have a system of recursion equations > with real coefficients and solve it numerically step-by-step, all my > solutions at all time steps are (obviously) real. If, however, I use > RSolve to get the general formulas for these solutions, some of them > become complex numbers. My understanding is the imaginary parts of > these numbers are due to rounding errors and the actual solutions are > only the real parts. Am I right? > > > Are all your equations linear? Otherwise the answer is "obviously no". A trivial example that satisifes all your stated conditions is RSolve[a[n]^2 + 1 == 0, a[n], n] {{a[n] -> -I, a[n] -> I}} Andrzej Kozlowski
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- From: skirmantas.janusonis@yale.edu (Skirmantas)
- RSolve and complex solutions