[SciPy-User] Vectorized newton function

[Robert Kern]

On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 19:33, Charles R Harris
<charlesr.harris at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 6:15 PM, Gökhan Sever <gokhansever at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Thanks Anne for suggesting "fsolve" and rest of the useful information.
>> Below is how my function is read:
>>
>> def myfunc(myarray):
>>        term1 = compute1_array1
>>        term2 = compute3_array2
>>        term3 = compute3_array3
>>        return term1+term2+term3
>>
>> result_arr = fsolve(myfunc, myarray)
>>
>> IDL handles univariate and multivariate cases using one fun newton
>> function. I get almost equivalent results using fsolve to IDL's newton.
>>
>
> The fsolve function is essentially multidimensional newton, IIRC.

Yes, but it's an N**2 waste when the equations aren't coupled.

-- 
Robert Kern

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