Understanding Fibonacci Search
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- Subject: [mg45394] Understanding Fibonacci Search
- From: adurstew at yahoo.com (Andrew J Durstewitz)
- Date: Tue, 6 Jan 2004 04:16:51 -0500 (EST)
- Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com
Hi! As a pretense, I'm a programmer trying to understand practicle use of the Fibonacci search. What I am trying to understand is how exactly to use the following equation for intializing the Fibonacci search. Let x=a+(1-g_n)(b-a) and y=a+g_N(b-a) Evaluate f(x) and f(y) and set n=N Here's my delima, I don't understand where those variables come from or how to assign them. I appoligize for my ignorance with this situation but I'm trying to learn more. Thank you for any assistance you can provide. Andrew J Durstewitz