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Re: Smalest enclosing circle

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• Subject: [mg50142] Re: Smalest enclosing circle
• From: koopman at sfu.ca (Ray Koopman)
• Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2004 05:01:21 -0400 (EDT)
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DrBob <drbob at bigfoot.com> wrote in message news:<cfomej$kul$1 at smc.vnet.net>...
> Finally!
> 
> NMinimize does a better job than FindMinimum, and constraints are not needed:
> 
> [...]

I agree. FindMinimum is not trustworthy here: it's usually close,
but not close enough, and increasing AccuracyGoal and PrecisionGoal
doesn't help. NMinimize does not have this problem.

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