IF statement if == "A variable" not working
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Trying to do a heat conduction simulation my and my IF statement not working
I have a variable called 'b' which equal to 'maximum timestep - 1' and I want to use and IF to record maximum temperature
The IF statement not working when I use IF == b, but works with IF = 9999
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Stephen23
2024-4-15
"IF statement if == "A variable" not working"
IF statement is working: you are comparing two different values, ergo EQ returns FALSE. You need to learn how to work with binary floating point numbers. For example, either ROUND the result or compare the absolute difference against a tolerance:
abs(A-B)<tol
This is a completely expected result with binary floating point numbers:
This is worth reading as well:
and also a brief overview of the topic:
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Fangjun Jiang
2024-4-15
编辑:Fangjun Jiang
2024-4-15
Most likely it is a floating point data equal comparison problem. b is somewhere near 9999 but not exactly. Use round() or integer data type.
a=1-1/3
b=2/3
a==b
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Voss
2024-4-15
"The IF statement not working when I use IF == b, but works with IF = 99999"
The behavior is not the same when using b vs when using 99999 because b is not exactly equal to 99999.
format long g
T= 1; %simulation time seconds
del_t= 1E-5; %time step size
N = T/del_t %Number of time discretization
b=(T/del_t)-1 % N-1
b looks like it is equal to 99999, but it's not.
b == 99999 % nope
It's actually slightly smaller:
fprintf('%.40f',b)
Why? Because of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floating-point_arithmetic. See also https://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/answers/57444-why-is-0-3-0-2-0-1-not-equal-to-zero.
Consider the behavior of the following two loops:
counter = 1;
counter_hit_b = false;
while counter < N
counter = counter+1;
if counter == b
counter_hit_b = true;
end
end
disp(counter_hit_b)
counter = 1;
counter_hit_99999 = false;
while counter < N
counter = counter+1;
if counter == 99999
counter_hit_99999 = true;
end
end
counter_hit_99999
The counter is 99999 at some point, but it is never b.
To get the right behavior using b instead of hard-coding 99999, you can define b to be exactly 99999 by using round.
b = round(T/del_t-1)
fprintf('%.40f',b)
b == 99999 % now b is exactly 99999
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