x = A \ B... but I know some of x!

David Bateman dbateman at dbateman.org
Mon Nov 10 02:35:07 CST 2008


Marc Normandin wrote:
> If you know some parts of x you can probably just multiply those through
> by A and subtract the result from B, then solve the modified problem for
> the remaining components of x.  If parts of x are known "more or less"
> and not with certainty, then you have yourself a more complex
> optimization problem that will require iterative fitting.

I believe you can only do this if matrix has strong hall components. 
That is the dmperm function should return R and S values that have more 
than two elements.

D.


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