Some Matlab technical programming problem

1. Jul 17, 2009

kubekas

Hi there every one

I need some help with the following function:

function cc = find_cc(n)
global nu
cc(1)=(-8.*i.*nu1-3.*n.^2-5+4.*i.*nu1.*n-4.*n)./n./(-n-2+4.*i.*nu1);
cc(2)=(3.*n.^2+2.*n+4)./n./(-n-2+4.*i.*nu1);
cc(3)=-(n-1).*(n+1)./n./(-n-2+4.*i.*nu1);
end
where

\nu is abitrary variable. cc(1), cc(2) and cc(3) are entries of a cc(3,1) matrix. Each time I run the above function I get the following message:

"In an assignment A(I) = B, the number of elements in B and
I must be the same"

I guess the problem here is \nu because if I set \nu to 1 the it works. But I want \new to be abbitrary. The above function is called by this function
function vs=reg_series(s)
global nu;
cc1=find_cc(1);
cc2=find_cc(2);
cc3=find_cc(3);
aa0=1;
aa(1)=aa0*cc1(1);
aa(2)=aa0*cc2(2)+aa(1)*cc2(1);
aa(3)=aa0*cc3(3)+aa(1)*cc3(2)+aa(2)*cc3(1);
sn=s.^3;
ss=aa0+aa(1).*s+aa(2).*s.^2+aa(3).*s.^3;
dss_ds=aa(1)+2.*s.*aa(2)+3.*s.^2.*aa(3);
asn=ones(length(s));
nn=4;
while ((abs(nn*asn(length(asn)))>1e-18) && (nn<500))
cct=find_cc(nn);
aa(nn)=aa(nn-1)*cct(1)+aa(nn-2)*cct(2)+aa(nn-3)*cct(3);
dss_ds=dss_ds+sn.*nn*aa(nn);
sn=s.*sn;
asn=aa(nn).*sn;
ss=ss+asn;
nn=nn+1;
end
dss_dz=-2*dss_ds;
vs=ss./dss_dz;
end

to generate a series with \nu as abitrary function. If I use "syms" on to keep \nu as a variables in the function cc = find_cc(n) above, then function vs=reg_series(s) is given me the following error message after the second last end command

"Function 'gt' is not defined for values of class 'sym'."

ANY HELP GUYS?
Amos

2. Jul 17, 2009

trambolin

Your code is really cumbersome and you can get rid of .* products if you use scalars.

The first error happens when you want to assign a vector to a single index e.g.

A(1) = [3 4]

Second one I don't know becuse there is no 'gt' function appearing in your code.

3. Jul 17, 2009

kubekas

Thank you Trambolin for the reply. But are you implying that I should then redefine the matrix entries to be vectors?

4. Jul 17, 2009

CEL

You pass the variable n as an argument of the function and you have the variable nu declared as global, but you use a variable nu1 in your function.
If cc is a matrix, to adress its first line you must write cc(1,:) and not cc(1).

5. Jul 17, 2009

kubekas

Sorry CEL, I meant nu not nu1. Also cc is meant to be a vector.