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I'm currently doing optimization in a high dimensional space. I was thinking of giving FindMinimum (or NMinimize not certain yet) a shot, however what bugs me is how I can state the command, given that its input a vector of size ~200.

Most examples for FindMinimum have functions of at most 2 variables.

Now I've seen this answer on StackOverflow where the user generates all his variables using 

vars = Array[Symbol["x$" <> ToString[#]] &, n];

However reading the comments showed that there were certain concerns with this method:

I would not recommend doing it in a program, but it is safe to do in an interactive session.

So is this standard, or is there a more clever solution to get to it ?

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  • $\begingroup$ Also check out Making Definitions for Indexed Objects $\endgroup$ Commented Dec 11, 2015 at 10:56
  • $\begingroup$ @shrx It is not about assigning. Creation of symbols is solved, comment's to linked answer are OP's concern. $\endgroup$ Commented Dec 11, 2015 at 17:07
  • $\begingroup$ @Kuba in that case I'm retracting my vote to close. $\endgroup$ Commented Dec 11, 2015 at 17:09

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The point being made in the quoted answer was to not use the name$number convention, because Module usues it, and who knows what conflicts might happen internally if you were to generate such variables. Using x$$$s in place of x$ would be fine.

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    $\begingroup$ Using Unique would also be acceptable. $\endgroup$ Commented Dec 12, 2015 at 1:42

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