Re: what does this error message mean
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- Subject: [mg75099] Re: [mg75058] what does this error message mean
- From: anguzman at ing.uchile.cl
- Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2007 20:22:13 -0400 (EDT)
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Hello
Probably the functions you're using have variables that haven't been
defined as numbers. For example , if you try:
In[112]:=
FindMinimum[a*x^2, {x, -1}]
FindMinimum::nnum : The function value 1.a is not a number at {x} = {-1.}
This is because Mathematica can't know what is the value of "a"
because it hasn't been defined before, so it can't find a minimum etc..
Please send more information about your specific problem, so we can be
more helpful...
Atte Andres Guzman
Fulya Ba?c? <fulya_bagci at yahoo.com> ha escrito:
> Hello,
> I get an error message:
> The function value `3` is not a number at `2` = `1`.
> I want to learn what does it mean? What do I have to do?
>
> (I was using FindFit and FindMinimum functions in Mathematica
> 5.2. Both of them didn't yield the intended results and showed the
> above error message.)
>
> Thanks in advance for your useful insight.
>
> Fulya
>
>
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