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Re: Q: FindMinimum

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  • Subject: [mg15533] Re: Q: FindMinimum
  • From: Alan Lewis <alanlewis at home.com>
  • Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1999 13:44:24 -0500 (EST)
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I'm not sure about the second question, but the first can be done by
simply writing your function being minimized in a block or module,
where you always print the function argument before returning the
function value.

C. Frey wrote:
> 
> Hi Mathematica folks!
> 
> I have some questions about the FindMinimum function. Is there a
> possibility to trace the points FindMinimum visits during its
> iterations to a local minimum? How can I get values instead of a
> message if neither AccuracyGoal nor PrecisionGoal are met when the
> maximum number of iterations is reached?
> 
> Thanks in advance
> Clemens
> 
> ------------------------------------------------------------
> Clemens Frey
> Doctoral Fellow at the
> Department of Mathematics/BITOEK
> University of Bayreuth(Germany)
> 
> clemens.frey at uni-bayreuth.de
> http://www.bitoek.uni-bayreuth.de/~Clemens.Frey
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