Bug in NMaximize?
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- Subject: [mg43468] Bug in NMaximize?
- From: guillerm at aida.usal.es (Guillermo Sanchez)
- Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2003 08:00:20 -0400 (EDT)
- Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com
Using:
NMaximize[{x^2 + y^2, x^2/9 + y^2/4 <= 1}, {x, y}]
Mathematica 5 gives as solution:
{9., {x -> -3., y -> 3.242576952529308*^-19}}.
Becouse it is a simetric problem (x^2 and y^2 >= 0) the true solution
should be: x -> -3 and x -> +3.
What is wrong?
Guillermo Sanchez
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