How to fix the large and mad fractions when dealing with symbolic vars
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Hi guys,
I face this often, as you can see below that cos(phi) and cos(psi) are decent entities, but when they are used with a symbolic variable (kn here), it shows huge fractions. Is there an easy way to make the coefficients of k1 k2 and k3 in the short format or some decent fractions.
Even something as trivial as k1*cos(pi/2) is not evaluated to be 0 as shown below. I fear that this leads to truncation errors.
Thanks in advance.
cos(pi/2)
syms a
a*cos(pi/2)
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Torsten
2022년 9월 18일
I could only see your screenshots after I opened your contribution using "Edit".
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Walter Roberson
2022년 9월 19일
The answer you are looking for is
digits(4)
sympref('FloatingPointOutput',true);
However, I do not recommend this.
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Paul
2022년 9월 18일
In this expression
syms a
a * cos(pi/2)
the cos() is evaluated numerically and the result converted to a sym to multiply with a. The numerical cos(pi/2) is not zero.
Force the cos to be evaluated symbolically
a * cos(pi/sym(2))
or
a * cos(sym(pi)/2)
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Torsten
2022년 9월 19일
For phi = 30 and phi = 90, cos(phi) is correctly simplified.
What would you expect for cos(50) and cos(25) ? I don't see a simple representation.
Walter Roberson
2022년 9월 19일
You should never eval() a symbolic expression. eval() of a symbolic expression is not documented by Mathworks. In practice it is treated as eval(char()) of the expression. However, char() of a symbolic expression is written in a mix of MATLAB, English, and the internal MuPAD programming language, and is not generally something that can be computed.
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