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24-Ruby IV
August 6, 2015
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Why minimize not work in this Mathcad Prime 3.0 sheet?

  • August 6, 2015
  • 11 replies
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In Mathcad 15 (without units) all was OK!

Please see the attach!

Best answer by bedmonds

Valery, et al - our engine team has spent some time looking at this worksheet, and we believe the difference in results between united and dimensionless formulations of the problem are a consequence of rescaling the parameters in the problem. The dimensionless problem is cast in terms of # of years and # of inverse miles rather than SI base units (# of seconds and # of inverse meters). Had the dimensionless version of the problem been cast in terms of SI base units they would have gotten answers equivalent to the results using units. The difference between minerr and minimize is a consequence of different stopping conditions which substantially affects the result because of the mismatched scales of the parameters.


Please see notes in the attached worksheet.

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19-Tanzanite
August 6, 2015

A bug I guess. If you remove the units it works.

24-Ruby IV
August 6, 2015

Richard Jackson wrote:

A bug I guess. If you remove the units it works.

Thanks, but I have checked it - a bug is a bug - see please the attach

19-Tanzanite
August 6, 2015

That worksheet has units.

bedmonds12-AmethystAnswer
12-Amethyst
October 8, 2015

Valery, et al - our engine team has spent some time looking at this worksheet, and we believe the difference in results between united and dimensionless formulations of the problem are a consequence of rescaling the parameters in the problem. The dimensionless problem is cast in terms of # of years and # of inverse miles rather than SI base units (# of seconds and # of inverse meters). Had the dimensionless version of the problem been cast in terms of SI base units they would have gotten answers equivalent to the results using units. The difference between minerr and minimize is a consequence of different stopping conditions which substantially affects the result because of the mismatched scales of the parameters.


Please see notes in the attached worksheet.

24-Ruby IV
October 8, 2015

Thanks, Brent!