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Re: Constrained Optimization

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• Subject: [mg57686] Re: Constrained Optimization
• From: Caspar von Seckendorff <seckendorff at alphatec.de>
• Date: Sat, 4 Jun 2005 03:04:32 -0400 (EDT)
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Thanks to all for your replies,

Your're right "y" was meant to be an unknown constant. As I understand 
it know, Maximize[] does some sort of numerical optimization. I thought 
it would be able to use some concave Programming logic (like 
Kuhn-Tucker) to solve this problem for me, returning a list of possible 
optima in symbolic form together with the neccessary constraints... But 
I admit that maybe this is to much to ask for ;-)

Greetings,

-Capar

dh schrieb:
 > ...
> Maximize is a numerical functions. Therefore, f[,] needs numeric input. 
> However, y is so far a puer symbol and has no numerical value. If I 
> understand your problem correctly, y is assumed to be a constant. But in 
> this case the maximum value depends on the unspecified y.
> Mathematica gives you a correct error message.
> 

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