Hello Monks- I have the following script to generate a 100 trial solutions of A and B, uniformly distributed between 0 and A_max and 0 and B_max, respectively. I want to choose a trial pair of A and B which will minimize a certain error term. What I don't understand is how to "store" the 10000 trial solution pairs so they can be referred to by the script. Also, if I wanted to print the 100 solutions, e.g. for A, how can that be done? I only get 1 solution for A when I run just the t and A loops and print $A. Here's the (incomplete) code, I put a space between the lines to help readability: 

 

#!/usr/bin/perl

$A_max = 1e-05, $B_max = 1e-04, $t_max = 200, $z_best = 1e+12;

for ($t=0; $t<=$t_max; $t++) {

  for ($A=0; $A<=$A_max; $A+=$A_max/100) {

    for ($B=0; $B<=$B_max; $B+=$B_max/100) {

     #something here that should refer to $i_max; $i_max = 
10000 because I expect 10000 pairs of A and B solution   pairs.

       #somehow use the 10000 trial solution pairs of $A and $B to sub
+stitute into the equation, $er_max = |A| + |B|.

     #set $er_max = $z, corresponding to the error calculated for each
+ trial solution pair. 

      for ($i=0; $i<$i_max; $i++) {  
 
        if ($z < $z_best) {

            $z_best = $z;

            $A_best = $A;

            $B_best = $B;
        }
      } 
    }
  }
}

print "$A = $A_best\n";
print "$B = $B_best\n";

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