Re: Simple question
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- Subject: [mg48087] Re: Simple question
- From: Paul Abbott <paul at physics.uwa.edu.au>
- Date: Tue, 11 May 2004 05:20:12 -0400 (EDT)
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In article <c7fi8a$oda$1 at smc.vnet.net>,
George Kamin <gwkamin at adelphia.net> wrote:
> This is simple question, but I do not know how to go about searching for it
> in this user groups data base. I also could not find a reference to the
> solution in the "Mathematica Book". How does one assign the result of
> Solve[.] or FindRoot[.] in the form {x1-> 3.14,x2->0.763} to the two
> variables y1,y2 respectively??
Others have answered your question -- but I should ask you _why_ you
want to assign the values (returned as rules) to variables? The idea of
returning results as a list of replacement rules is to avoid explicit
variable assignments.
If you have
vals = {x1-> 3.14,x2->0.763};
then you can substitute these values into any expression involving x1
and/or x2. For example
x1^2 - x2 /. vals
or
ContourPlot[Evaluate[(x-x1)^2+(y-x2)^2 /. vals], {x,-5,5}, {y,-1,1}];
Sometimes variable assignment is desirable or required but, usually, the
above approach is preferable.
Cheers,
Paul
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