symbolic variable and assignment operator

syms x 
syms t 
b0=0.05
a3=0.1
b3=0.3;
A=(2*b3-1)/(2*a3-1)
B=(1/2)*b0*((4*a3*b3-1)/2*a3-1);
U=zeros(1,2,'sym');
V=zeros(1,2,'sym');
A=zeros(1,2,'sym');
B=zeros(1,2,'sym');
C=zeros(1,2,'sym');
D=zeros(1,2,'sym');
series1(x,t)=sym(zeros(1,1));
series2(x,t)=sym(zeros(1,1));
U(1)=0.05*(1-tanh(B*(20*(x-0.5))));
V(1)=b0*(A-tanh(B*(20*(x-0.5))))

Unable to perform assignment because the left and right sides have a different number of elements.

Error in sym/privsubsasgn (line 1168)

L_tilde2 = builtin('subsasgn',L_tilde,struct('type','()','subs',{varargin}),R_tilde);

Error in indexing (line 999)

C = privsubsasgn(L,R,inds{:});

[Shantanu Dixit]

Hi Yogeshwari, the error occurs because you're trying to assign a vector (1x2) to a single element of the symbolic array U and V.

U(1) = 0.05 * (1 - tanh(B * (20 * (x - 0.5))));
V(1)=b0*(A-tanh(B*(20*(x-0.5))));
%% results in a 1x2 vector on the right side, which cannot be assigned to a single element on the left

Also double-check your implementation as 'B' is initially defined as a symbolic variable and is later changed to a symbolic vector making the initial declaration redundant.

B=(1/2)*b0*((4*a3*b3-1)/2*a3-1);
B=zeros(1,2,'sym');

Answer 1

[Walter Roberson]

B=zeros(1,2,'sym');

B will be a symbolic vector of size 1 x 2

U(1)=0.05*(1-tanh(B*(20*(x-0.5))));

On the right hand side, all of the symbolic vector B is used, so the right hand side will be a 1 x 2 result. But you are attempting to assign that 1 x 2 result into a single location, U(1)

[Steven Lord]

If you'd eliminated the line of code that overwrites the scalar you'd assigned to B first with the symbolic vector, it would give you an answer. I'll leave it to you to determine if that's the answer you expected.

syms x 
syms t 
b0=0.05

b0 = 0.0500

a3=0.1

a3 = 0.1000

b3=0.3;
% These assign scalars to A and B
A=(2*b3-1)/(2*a3-1)

A = 0.5000

B=(1/2)*b0*((4*a3*b3-1)/2*a3-1)

B = -0.0261

U=zeros(1,2,'sym');
V=zeros(1,2,'sym');
% Commenting these two lines out (so A and B aren't overwritten) ...
% A=zeros(1,2,'sym');
% B=zeros(1,2,'sym');
C=zeros(1,2,'sym');
D=zeros(1,2,'sym');
series1(x,t)=sym(zeros(1,1));
series2(x,t)=sym(zeros(1,1));
% ... allows these two lines to work
U(1)=0.05*(1-tanh(B*(20*(x-0.5))))

U = 

V(1)=b0*(A-tanh(B*(20*(x-0.5))))

V =