Best way to solve my equation.
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Hello, I am trying to solve an equation and to optimize the solver. However, since Matlab offers several ways to do so, I am a little bit lost regarding the best way for my case.
I have a somehow very long formula with only one variable that I will call z. Thus, the formula is f(z) and I am seaching for the z such as abs(f(z))=2.
As far as I know, I have three ways to do so:
f = myfunction;
f = abs(f)-2;
sol = fzero(f,z);
f = myfunction;
f = abs(abs(f)-2);
sol = fminsearch(f,z);
syms z;
f = myfunction;
sol = double(solve(f==2))
I guess using syms is not the fastest so I should probably be one of the two others but which one? Plus, there might also be other solvers that I don't know about. Futhermore, I am struggling with the options and on how to optimize the solution finding. For exemple, I know the minumal and maximal values that z could potentially take and I think that fidding the solver with that might help reducing the time.
Last thing, for one of my case, I ploted f(z) to see how it looks like and if the solutions I was given were right. The case I tested has four solutions. However, I get only two solutions with fminsearch and sym and those two are correct ones but the two ways of solving don't give me the same correct ones. That is also for that that I am posting here because I probably don't use the solver correctly.
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Alan Weiss
on 12 Mar 2015
I would use fzero or fminbnd, not fminsearch. For both fminbnd and fzero, you would do well to give a finite initial interval (you have to for fminbnd). If you do so for fzero then the function needs to have opposite signs at the endpoints. In this case, either algorithm will converge quickly. Probably fzero will be faster, but I am not 100% certain about that.
Alan Weiss
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