Re: Solve Feature?
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- Subject: [mg52805] Re: Solve Feature?
- From: Andrzej Kozlowski <akoz at mimuw.edu.pl>
- Date: Mon, 13 Dec 2004 04:23:34 -0500 (EST)
- Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com
One more observation:
sols = Solve[ls, {x, y}, VerifySolutions -> True]
{{x -> 39.17468245269453, y -> 43.74999999999997},
{x -> 60.82531754730549, y -> 43.75000000000001}}
gives the correct answer.
Andrzej
On 12 Dec 2004, at 10:18, Andrzej Kozlowski wrote:
> The Solve case is indeed very puzzling. The reason why it is puzzling
> is this.
>
> ls = {(-50 + x)^2 + (-50 + y)^2 == 156.25,
> (-50.00000000000002 + x)^2 +
> (-37.49999999999999 + y)^2 == 156.25}
>
> gr = GroebnerBasis[ls /. Equal -> Subtract, {x, y}];
>
>
> sols1 = Solve[gr == 0, {x, y}]
>
>
> {{y -> 43.7499999999999, x -> 39.17468245269449},
> {y -> 43.7499999999999, x -> 60.82531754730555}}
>
> This is what I have always believed Solve actually does (Daniel ???).
> But of course it isn't true here:
>
> sols = Solve[ls, {x, y}]
>
> {{x -> 16., y -> 43.74999999999993},
> {x -> 84., y -> 43.75000000000004}}
>
> Looks like a bug to me.
>
> The answer we get using GroebnerBasis is indeed very close to that
> given by using Rationalize, but curiously is not quite identical to
> it.
>
>
> sols = N[Solve[Rationalize[ls], {x, y}]]
>
>
> {{x -> 39.17468245269452, y -> 43.75},
> {x -> 60.82531754730548, y -> 43.75}}
>
> sols1 and sols are close enough for Mathematica to consider them equal:
>
> ({x, y} /. sols1) == ({x, y} /. sols)
>
> True
>
> However:
>
>
> ls /. sols1
>
> Out[6]=
> {{True, True}, {False, True}}
>
> while
>
> ls /. sols
>
> Out[7]=
> {{True, True}, {True, True}}
>
> This is somewhat unpleasant.
>
> All this seems odd. I have beleived the follwoing to be true. Solve
> uses GroebnerBasis to solve systems of polynomial equations. To use
> Groebner basis the polynomials have to be rationalized. That suggests
> that there should be no difference between the above results. What is
> going on?
>
> As for the NSolve example, I am not very surprised. This, as far as I
> know, uses numerical Groebner basis which I think is vulnerable to
> numerical errors.
>
> Andrzej
>
>
>
> On 12 Dec 2004, at 08:25, DrBob wrote:
>
>> *This message was transferred with a trial version of CommuniGate(tm)
>> Pro*
>> By the way, it gets even worse if I use NSolve:
>>
>> solution = NSolve[{c1, c5}]
>> {c1, c5} /. solution
>> Apply[Subtract, {c1, c5}, {1}] /. solution
>>
>> {{x -> -4.27759132*^8,
>> y -> 43.74999927054117},
>> {x -> 4.2775924*^8,
>> y -> 43.75000072945884}}
>> {{False, False}, {False, False}}
>> {{1.82977917785309*^17,
>> 1.82977917785309*^17},
>> {1.8297792462945597*^17,
>> 1.8297792462945597*^17}}
>>
>> These are simple polynomial equations, so this is really puzzling.
>>
>> Bobby
>>
>> On Sat, 11 Dec 2004 17:15:30 -0600, DrBob <drbob at bigfoot.com> wrote:
>>
>>> HELP!! Here are two very simple quadratic equations (circles):
>>>
>>> {c1, c5} = {(-50 + x)^2 + (-50 + y)^2 == 156.25,
>>> (-50.00000000000002 + x)^2 +
>>> (-37.49999999999999 + y)^2 == 156.25};
>>>
>>> If we rationalize before solving, we get accurate solutions:
>>>
>>> solution = Solve@Rationalize@{c1, c5}
>>> solution // N
>>> {c1, c5} /. solution
>>> Subtract @@@ {c1, c5} /. solution
>>>
>>> {{x -> (25/4)*(8 - Sqrt[3]), y -> 175/4},
>>> {x -> (25/4)*(8 + Sqrt[3]), y -> 175/4}}
>>> {{x -> 39.17468245269452, y -> 43.75},
>>> {x -> 60.82531754730548, y -> 43.75}}
>>> {{True, True}, {True, True}}
>>> {{-4.263256414560601*^-14, 4.973799150320701*^-13},
>>> {-4.263256414560601*^-14, -4.263256414560601*^-13}}
>>>
>>> You can check this visually with ImplicitPlot:
>>>
>>> ImplicitPlot[{c1, c5}, {x, -40, 70}]
>>>
>>> But if we solve without Rationalize, we get wildly inaccurate
>>> results:
>>>
>>> solution = Solve@{c1, c5}
>>> {c1, c5} /. solution
>>> Subtract @@@ {c1, c5} /. solution
>>>
>>> {{x -> 16., y -> 43.74999999999993},
>>> {x -> 84., y -> 43.75000000000004}}
>>> {{False, False}, {False, False}}
>>> {{1038.812500000001, 1038.8125000000005},
>>> {1038.8124999999995, 1038.8124999999993}}
>>>
>>> I'm using version 5.1.
>>>
>>> Bobby
>>
>>
>>
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