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Annoying Maximize behaviour

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  • Subject: [mg64024] Annoying Maximize behaviour
  • From: "Solomon, Joshua" <J.A.Solomon at city.ac.uk>
  • Date: Sat, 28 Jan 2006 02:23:36 -0500 (EST)
  • Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com

In[1]:=
{$Version, $ReleaseNumber}


Out[1]=
{5.1 for Mac OS X (October 25, 2004),0}

In[2]:=
Maximize[Exp[-x^2]Sin[x],x]


Out[2]=
Maximize[Exp[-x^2]Sin[x],x]

wouldn't the following output be friendlier?

Maximize::choke: No analytic solution found, resorting to numerical methods.
Out[2]=
{0.396653, {x -> 0.653271}}

j
-- 
Joshua A. Solomon
http://www.staff.city.ac.uk/~solomon


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