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Re: Maxima/Minima question

• To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
• Subject: [mg112534] Re: Maxima/Minima question
• From: Bill Rowe <readnews at sbcglobal.net>
• Date: Sun, 19 Sep 2010 05:37:22 -0400 (EDT)

On 9/18/10 at 7:24 AM, pratip.chakraborty at gmail.com (pratip) wrote:

>When we use NMinimize or FindMinimum is it possible to tell
>Mathematica to perform certain number of iterations (for example 20)
>and give the best solution found after those specified number of
>iterations.

>Please if anyone can give an example it will be great.

With FindMinimum do

FindMinimum[... , MaxIterations->20]

Note, this information is provided in the online documentation
for FindMinimum. Click on the More Information arrow to display
this option.