Re: Precision of arguments to FunctionInterpolation
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- Subject: [mg68514] Re: Precision of arguments to FunctionInterpolation
- From: "Andrew Moylan" <andrew.j.moylan at gmail.com>
- Date: Wed, 9 Aug 2006 04:17:57 -0400 (EDT)
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Peter Pein wrote:
> Andrew Moylan schrieb:
> > Here is some further information that makes the strangeness more
> > obvious:
> >
> > The following three different calls to FunctionInterpolation all fail:
> >
> > FunctionInterpolation[lowPrecisionSin[x], {x, 0, 1.`14}]
> > FunctionInterpolation[lowPrecisionSin[x], {x, 0, 1.`20}]
> > FunctionInterpolation[lowPrecisionSin[x], {x, 0, 1}]
>
> the latter works in Mathematica 5.1 for Windows
You're right Peter, this last one works fine in Mathematica 5.2 for
Windows too. I don't know now why I thought it didn't.
> > Secondly, does anyone know the meaning of the InterpolationPrecision
> > option to FunctionInterpolation? In particular, with the default
> > setting of InterpolationPrecision->Automatic, what value is
> > automatically chosen?
> >
> You can test this using
>
> Reap[FunctionInterpolation[((Sow[Precision[#1]]; #1) & )[lowPrecisionSin[x]], {x, 0., 1}]][[2, 1]]
>
> which gives:
>
> {5.1924023244417254, Infinity, Infinity, 4.999999999999999, 5.000000000000001, 5., 5., 5.,
> 5.000000000000001, 4.999999999999999, 5., 5.000000000000001, 5., 5., 4.999999999999999, 5.,
> 5., 4.999999999999999, 5.000000000000001, 5.000000000000001, 5.000000000000001, 5., 5.}
>
> If you know the maximum precision of the function you want to interpolate (5 in this case), you can use
> InterpolationPrecision->5:
>
> intfuns = {f14, f20, finf} = (FunctionInterpolation[lowPrecisionSin[x],
> {x, 0, SetPrecision[1., #1]}, InterpolationPrecision -> 5] & ) /@ {14, 20, Infinity};
>
> SameQ @@ intfuns
> --> True
>
> Through[{f14, lowPrecisionSin, Sin}[0.6`14.000000000000002]]
> --> {0.5646420701356566528`4.127871245474387, 0.5646424733950353572`5.000000000000002, 0.5646424733950353572009454457`14.056991706843485}
Thanks Peter, this sheds some light on the meaning of the
InterpolationPrecision option and how to choose it.
I think that the default value for InterpolationPrecision is
MachinePrecision, because the following succeeds with the same result
as when using "InterpolationPrecision -> Automatic":
FunctionInterpolation[lowPrecisionSin[x], {x, 0, 1},
InterpolationPrecision -> MachinePrecision]
whereas any explicit numerical setting above about 13 for
InterpolationPrecision fails. But again, when the upper bound of the
region of interpolation is changed from 1 to the machine-precision
number "1.", the interpolation suceeds for _any_ numerical value of the
InterpolationPrecision option less than about 23, which is quite
strange.