[SciPy-User] Vectorized newton function

[Gökhan Sever]

On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 9:26 PM, Robert Kern <robert.kern at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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,

Could you give an example what you mean here?

-- 
Gökhan
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