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Torsten
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Re: Backslash Operator on a vector In MATLAB
Posted:
Mar 14, 2013 7:08 AM
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leaderbabuabc@gmail.com wrote in message <1760c185-efa5-4db6-baf1-9f38761347aa@googlegroups.com>...
> Dear Friends,
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> In MATLAB let us type
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> A = [0.1195952380 0.2552619050 0.3235000000 0.1289285710 0.6675476190 -0.0770000000 0.1973809520];
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> and
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> b0 = 1.7250238100;
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> If I use backslash operator as 'A\b0', the result is
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> [0 0 0 0 2.5841 0 0]
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> and if I use
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> pinv(A)*b0
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> we get the answer as:
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> 0.2985 0.6370 0.8073 0.3217 1.6659 -0.1922 0.4926
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> But many documents which talk about backslash operator, say that both the operations should result in the same answer. Why is this not so in this case?
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> Can anybody help me in this regard?
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> Thanks,
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> Babu.
To say it simple:
because your equation has many solutions that are equally valid.
Best wishes
Torsten.
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