Question on using interpolate function
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This is a follow-up to my previous post here. I want to find the x value at which data has 5.0 (first occurence).
I tried using the find function suggested in the comments.
l = load('var.mat'); % file attached
l = l.unnamed;
x = l(:,1);
data = l(:,2);
tsinterp = getinterpmethod(x)
xmatch = x(find(data == 5.0,1))
The answer that I obtain is 1.71. However, the first occurrence of 5.0 is at 0.20 (x value). I'm not sure what's going wrong.
Any suggestions on how to proceed will be really helpful
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Sindar
on 29 Jan 2020
Check your data again. "data" is slightly less than 5 until x=0.485, and the first point exactly equal to 5 is x=1.71. You could add a tolerance like so:
tol = 1e-4;
xmatch = x(find(data >= 5.0-tol,1,'first'))
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Sindar
on 29 Jan 2020
"1" tells the number of occurences you want, in case there are multiple. 'first' is the direction; it isn't required, since it is the default, but I like to include it out of habit
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Walter Roberson
on 29 Jan 2020
See ismembertol()
The data that is stored corresponding to time 0.20, is not bit-for-bit identical to the representation for double precision 5.0. If you were to subtract 5 from the content at that location you would get something not exactly 0.
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