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Re: Finding the extreme function values.

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Subject: [mg109307] Re: Finding the extreme function values.
From: Bill Rowe <readnews at sbcglobal.net>
Date: Wed, 21 Apr 2010 04:31:19 -0400 (EDT)

On 4/20/10 at 5:53 AM, hector at ceaden.edu.cu (Hector Lubian de Iraola)
wrote:

>I would like to know which is or are the best commands in order to
>find the highest and lowest function values in an interval. What I
>need are not the maximums not the minimums of the function within
>the interval but the highest and lowest values. In my search of the
>help files I couldn't find a simple way to do it because with
>maximize or minimize I don't get what I need. I am an inexpert user
>so please excuse me for that. Thank you, Hector.

What do you mean by "lowest function values in an interval" if
this is not the minimum of the function in that interval?

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