Re: General--Using FindRoot
- To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
- Subject: [mg69081] Re: General--Using FindRoot
- From: Jean-Marc Gulliet <jeanmarc.gulliet at gmail.com>
- Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2006 06:32:03 -0400 (EDT)
- Organization: The Open University, Milton Keynes, UK
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- Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com
batman_forever at email.it wrote: > after using the command Findroot to find the approssimate solution, I have to use this number for other steps. > the solution is k --> 0.12657 > how I can define automatically a variable k2 = 0.12657 so I can insert this in another expression? Use the replacement operator since FindRoot returns a list of replacement rules: sol = FindRoot[Sin[k] == Cos[k], {k, 1}] --> {k -> 0.7853981633974483} k2 = k /. sol --> 0.7853981633974483 k2 = k /. FindRoot[Sin[k] == Cos[k], {k, 1}] --> 0.7853981633974483 HTH, Jean-Marc