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I have to write the equation written in image, i use array to create the first big curly brace, now I've tried to nest another array to write second curly brace but I get error.

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This is the code that gave me error:

DTW(A,B)=\left\{ \begin{array}{l}
    0 \quad \text{se $n$=0 ed $m$=0}\\
    \infty \quad \text{se $n$=0 o $m$=0}\\
    d(H(A),H(B))+\min\left\{
    \begin{array}{1}
        a\\
        b\\
        c\\
    \end{array}
    \right.
  \end{array} \right.

How can I write this equation? Thank you.

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Please give the code giving the error. – Stephan Lehmke May 2 '12 at 15:25
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The {1} after the inner \begin{array} should be {l} (an "ell", not a "one"). The error was Illegal character in array arg. – egreg May 2 '12 at 15:33
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Not tested, but you have 1 (one) instead of l (ell) in the second array spec. - Gah, Ninja'd. – Stephan Lehmke May 2 '12 at 15:33

2 Answers

up vote 6 down vote accepted

You have a typo in your inner array

change

     \begin{array}{1}
                   %%%

to

   \begin{array}{l}
                %%%
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To give you another possibility using cases from amsmath or mathtools.

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{mathtools}
\begin{document}
\begin{equation}
DTW(A,B)=\begin{cases}
    0 \quad \phantom{\infty}\text{if}\,\, n=0 \,\,\text{and}\,\, m=0  \\
    \infty \quad \phantom{0}  \text{if}\,\, n=0 \,\,\text{and}\,\, m=0 \\
    {d(H(A),H(B))+\min \begin{cases}
        a\\
        b\\
        c\\
    \end{cases}}
      \end{cases}
    \end{equation} 
  \end{document}

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