Gauss Seidel method in matlab to find the roots

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Ilke
Ilke on 25 Feb 2014
Commented: Paul on 25 Feb 2014
Hello everyone, i have a porblem with Gauss Seidel.I have 4 equations and 4 unknown. I am giving the the initial conditions and ı also arranged the equations with respect to diagonal row ( so the diagonal side has to be bigger). If the maximum error will be lower than 1% error, ıt should give me values (x1,x2,x3,x4). May you please find where i am doing wrong. I really appreciate...
clc;clear; format ('long' , 'g'); x1(1)=1;x2(1)=1; x3(1)=1;x4(1)=1; error=1;
while error >=0,01
i=1;
x1(i+1)=(-23+x2(i)-x3(i)+2*x4(i))/4;
x3(i+1)=((2*x1(i+1)-6*x2(i)+3*x4(i)+21));
x2(i+1)=(-x1(i+1)+11+5*x3(i+1)+x4(i))/2;
x4(i+1)=(22+x1(i+1)-2*x2(i+1)+3*x3(i+1))/6;
error_x1(i+1)=abs((x1(i+1)-x1(i)))/x1(i+1);
error_x3(i+1)=abs((x3(i+1)-x3(i)))/x3(i+1);
error_x2(i+1)=abs((x2(i+1)-x2(i)))/x2(i+1);
error_x4(i+1)=abs((x4(i+1)-x4(i)))/x4(i+1);
A=[error_x1 ;error_x3 ;error_x2;error_x4];
error=max(A);
i=i+1;
end
disp ( ' x1(i+1) error(%) ')
disp([ x1 ' error_x1'])
disp ( ' x3(i+1) error(%)')
disp([ x3 'error_x3'])
disp ( ' x2(i+1) error(%)')
disp([ x2 'error_x2'])
disp ( ' x4(i+1) error(%)')
disp([ x4 'error_x4'])

Answers (2)

Paul
Paul on 25 Feb 2014
First of all 0,01 should be 0.01. Secondly, i=1; should be outside the while loop, else the value of i is reset every loop. I also fixed your display commands:
clc;clear; format ('long' , 'g'); x1(1)=1;x2(1)=1; x3(1)=1;x4(1)=1; error=1;
i=1;
while error >=0.01
x1(i+1)=(-23+x2(i)-x3(i)+2*x4(i))/4;
x3(i+1)=((2*x1(i+1)-6*x2(i)+3*x4(i)+21));
x2(i+1)=(-x1(i+1)+11+5*x3(i+1)+x4(i))/2;
x4(i+1)=(22+x1(i+1)-2*x2(i+1)+3*x3(i+1))/6;
error_x1(i+1)=abs((x1(i+1)-x1(i)))/x1(i+1);
error_x3(i+1)=abs((x3(i+1)-x3(i)))/x3(i+1);
error_x2(i+1)=abs((x2(i+1)-x2(i)))/x2(i+1);
error_x4(i+1)=abs((x4(i+1)-x4(i)))/x4(i+1);
A=[error_x1 ;error_x3 ;error_x2;error_x4];
error=max(A);
i=i+1;
end
disp ( ' x1(i+1) error(%) ')
disp([x1(end) error_x1(end)])
disp ( ' x3(i+1) error(%)')
disp([x2(end) error_x2(end)])
disp ( ' x2(i+1) error(%)')
disp([x3(end) error_x3(end)])
disp ( ' x4(i+1) error(%)')
disp([x4(end) error_x4(end)])

Ilke
Ilke on 25 Feb 2014
Firstly, i am really thankful for your answering. When i run your codes, it worked but it gave me wrong results and error is really high.True results must be [-4 3 -2 1].I think , the problem is with errors. i am looking where it is wrong. x1(i+1) error(%) -5.25 -1.19047619047619
x3(i+1) error(%)
27.375 0.963470319634703
x2(i+1) error(%)
7.5 0.866666666666667
x4(i+1) error(%)
-2.58333333333333 -1.38709677419355
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Paul
Paul on 25 Feb 2014
A=[error_x1 ;error_x3 ;error_x2;error_x4];
should be:
A=[error_x1(i+1) ;error_x3(i+1) ;error_x2(i+1);error_x4(i+1)];
Still the values do not converge so you probably have some errors in your equations.

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