for loop jump an element of an array
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Hello there,
it's my first post here, I'm writing a code to perform linear interpolation of a sinusoid and then a resampling with an higeher sampling frequency but i'm facing some trouble since the foor loop seems to jump one value of the sampling time vector and that's a problem when i'm walking through the array to find the overlapping times of the two sampling time vectors.
f0 = 10; % Hz
T0 = 1/f0; % period of sin [s]
fc = 100; %Hz
T = 1/fc; % first sampling period [s]
N = floor(10*(fc/f0)); % number of samples in 10 periods
samples_time = 0:T:(N-1)*T;
samples_value = zeros(1,N);
% first sampling
for i=1:N
samples_value(i) = sin(2*pi*f0*samples_time(i));
end
fc2 = 200; % Hz
T2 = 1/fc2; % second sampling period [s]
N2 = floor((N-1)*(T/T2)+1); % number of samples
samples_time2 = 0:T2:(N2-1)*T2;
for j=1:N2
if samples_time2(j) == 0.64
disp("found");
end
%disp(samples_time2(j));
end
The foor loop seems not to find the value 0.64 in the array, it works with other values. I cannot find a solution, it's very strange. (I'm running R2023b)
Hope someone can help me, thanks
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Stephen23
2024-3-27
"I cannot find a solution, it's very strange."
It is not strange at all: you made the mistake of testing for exact equality of binary floating point numbers.
The solution is also very simple: always compare the absolute difference against a tolerance:
abs(A-B)<tol
More information on this topic:
This is worth reading as well:
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Voss
2024-3-27
"x = j:i:k creates a regularly-spaced vector x using i as the increment between elements. The vector elements are roughly equal to [j,j+i,j+2*i,...,j+m*i] where m = fix((k-j)/i). However, if i is not an integer, then floating point arithmetic plays a role in determining whether colon includes the endpoint k in the vector, since k might not be exactly equal to j+m*i."
I'd expand that to add, if i is not an integer, then floating point arithmetic plays a role in determining whether colon includes any intended value beyond the first.
To avoid this problem, construct your time vectors using a spacing of 1 in colon, i.e.:
samples_time = (0:N-1)*T;
samples_time2 = (0:N2-1)*T2
instead of:
samples_time = 0:T:(N-1)*T;
samples_time2 = 0:T2:(N2-1)*T2;
(Yes, the same problem of missing values happens in samples_time as well.)
Some illustrations:
f0 = 10; % Hz
T0 = 1/f0; % period of sin [s]
fc = 100; %Hz
T = 1/fc; % first sampling period [s]
N = floor(10*(fc/f0)); % number of samples in 10 periods
Constructing samples_time both ways:
samples_time = 0:T:(N-1)*T
samples_time_test = (0:N-1)*T
They look the same, but they are not:
isequal(samples_time,samples_time_test)
In particular, 0.64 is in the one constructed using a colon spacing of 1 but not the one using T spacing:
find(samples_time == 0.64)
find(samples_time_test == 0.64)
There is an element in samples_time that is very close to 0.64 (about 1e-16 away), but it's not exactly 0.64:
[d,idx] = min(abs(samples_time-0.64))
whereas in samples_time_test that element is exactly 0.64:
[d,idx] = min(abs(samples_time_test-0.64))
The same is true for the second set of times.
fc2 = 200; % Hz
T2 = 1/fc2; % second sampling period [s]
N2 = floor((N-1)*(T/T2)+1); % number of samples
samples_time2 = 0:T2:(N2-1)*T2
samples_time2_test = (0:N2-1)*T2
isequal(samples_time2,samples_time2_test)
find(samples_time2 == 0.64)
find(samples_time2_test == 0.64)
And 0.64 isn't the only missing value either, in either vector:
% elements in samples_time_test that aren't in samples_time:
samples_time_test(~ismember(samples_time_test,samples_time))
% elements in samples_time2_test that aren't in samples_time2:
samples_time2_test(~ismember(samples_time2_test,samples_time2))
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Stephen23
2024-3-29
"...can I have the same problem?"
Yes. Using two different methods can result in two different values. That is nature of binary floating point numbers.
the cyclist
2024-3-27
Instead, check equality with a small tolerance, e.g.
if abs(samples_time2(j) - 0.64) < 1.e-6
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