Can you use Mathcad's "re" function applied to your array to extract the real pars?

I didn't try it as I've read that it extract only the real parts from a complex, whereas I need to extract all the complex values from the array, which contain both the real and the complex numbers.

Thanks for a prompt answer anyways, any other suggestions?

If you can find the real parts, then you have the imaginary parts as well, don't you?

TTFN

FAQ731-376: Eng-Tips.com Forum Policies
Chinese prisoner wins Nobel Peace Prize

Quote:

Does anyone know how to create a function that substracts array as so to have only REAL numbers in the final array?

Why not IFRs suggestion?  You can use:

MR:=Re(M) and use the vectorize operator _ to make it apply to each element in matrix M.

Quote:

I didn't try it as I've read that it extract only the real parts from a complex, whereas I need to extract all the complex values from the array, which contain both the real and the complex numbers.

If you want the imaginary part, use Im instead of Re.

I can't load your example because I have Mathcad 13.
 

I got that message in a program last week because I was trying to compare a value with units to a number (200 psig > 100 is undefined).

I didn't open your sheet, but that was the fix for that message in one of my programs.

David

Where's the rest of the sheet?  Your sheet only contains the definition of d.nom'.  There's nothing that defines d.nom', or W.p[i, or u.w2'[i

Is this for school?  How do you expect to get help by noly providing a tiny fraction of the problem?

TTFN

FAQ731-376: Eng-Tips.com Forum Policies
Chinese prisoner wins Nobel Peace Prize

Well,
I can of course give you all my stuff, but it has 80 pages in Mathcad. The problem concerns creating a program to select proper heat exchanger from heat exchangers' standard.

All the data for this program is located in excel or come from excel and has been converted a couple of times in Mathcad. There are 10 documents in excel with different data for this project. So there is why i don't have defined rest of variables.

I will copy those final data needed for this program and enclose here.

I will try with Re function afterwards.

• http://files.engineering.com/getfile.aspx?folder=4f6dedb6-ea25-426d-81f1-65

You have yet to describe what you really want to do with the complex quantities.  What's the significance?  Do you want to zero out the imaginary parts?  Do you want the absolute magnitude of the complex values?  Do you want to zero out the entire value?  Just what do you want to do ?

Obviously, you cannot directly compare a complex value to a real value.  

Why are there complex values at all?

TTFN

FAQ731-376: Eng-Tips.com Forum Policies
Chinese prisoner wins Nobel Peace Prize

There appears to be some other problems in your program, since there doesn't appear to be any difference between the input vector and the output vector if the complex values are zero'd out.

TTFN

FAQ731-376: Eng-Tips.com Forum Policies
Chinese prisoner wins Nobel Peace Prize

Thanks for your help.

I've fixed the problem on my own.