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Re: TOTAL function [message #86530 is a reply to message #86528]

Fri, 15 November 2013 09:22

Mats Löfdahl
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Den fredagen den 15:e november 2013 kl. 17:54:44 UTC+1 skrev fd_...@mail.com:
> Hi
>
> I want to calculate the error using the TOTAL function but I got very strange results:
>
> The error is given by
> error=||Aexact-Anoisy|| with matrix A=array[1,200]
>
> where the ||.|| represents a norm.
>
> I typed my code like this
> SQRT( Total (AExact - Anoisy) ^2. )

You probably want to write this as SQRT( Total( (AExact - Anoisy)^2. ) ) so that you do the squaring before the summing.

> Each time I run this I got very different and illogical number. The maximum value of an error isn't 1?

That's difficult to answer without knowing anything about the contents of the two arrays.

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