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Re: lists w/o double brackets

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• Subject: [mg31457] Re: [mg31436] lists w/o double brackets
• From: Tomas Garza <tgarza01 at prodigy.net.mx>
• Date: Wed, 7 Nov 2001 05:29:25 -0500 (EST)
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Suppose you have two equations:
In[1]:=
eqs = {eq1, eq2};

In[2]:=
p = {{var1, val1}, {var2, val2}, {varn, valn}};

Then, for any arbitrary f,

In[3]:=
Clear[f]
In[4]:=
f[eqs, Sequence[p[[1]], p[[2]]]]
Out[4]=
f[{eq1, eq2}, {var1, val1}, {var2, val2}]

You may use FindRoot (or Solve or whatever) instead of f.

Tomas Garza
Mexico City
----- Original Message -----
From: "Gavin K Brennen" <gbrennen at unm.edu>
To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
Subject: [mg31457] [mg31436] lists w/o double brackets


> Hello,
>
> I am using the function FindRoot with a large number of simultaneous
equations.
>
> FindRoot[eqs,initialvals]
>
> I have a function for generating the equations which works fine as a list
> input in FindRoot, however I am having difficulty creating a function for
> generating initialvals that will be accepted by FindRoot.  The problem
> seems to be that FindRoot demands a format
>
> FindRoot[{eq1,eq2,...,eqn},{var1,val1},{var2,val2},...,{varn,valn}]
>
> the variables and initial values of which must appear as a list without
> double brackets.  The function I have for generating the initial values
> always outputs the list as follows
>
>
> Input
> initialvals
> Output
> {{var1,val1},{var2,val2},...,{varn,valn}}.
>
> Note the double brackets which FindRoot will not accept.
> I have tried using
>
>   initialvals2=StringReplace[ToString[initialvals], {"{{" -> "{", "}}" ->
> "}"}]
>
> which eliminates the double brackets, however FindRoot will not accept
> stings as input for the variables and upon converting back to an
Expression
> using
>
> ToExpression[initialvals2]
>
> the double brackets return.
>
> Is there a solution to this without having to manually cut and paste the
> output of my expression for initialvals without the double brackets into
> FindRoot?
>
> Thanks much,
>
> Gavin
> gbrennen at unm.edu
>
>
>

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    • From: Gavin K Brennen <gbrennen@unm.edu>