Problem finding maximum
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- Subject: [mg127578] Problem finding maximum
- From: Cisco Lane <travlorf at yahoo.com>
- Date: Sat, 4 Aug 2012 21:49:15 -0400 (EDT)
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I cannot seem to find the corrrect maximum for the absolute value of the following function in 0<=x<=aa1
aa1 = .7481
f[x_, a_] = (a^3 - 6 x - a^2 (4 + x) + a (2 + 12 x - 4 x^2))/(8 a)
For example, FindMaximum[{Abs[f[x, aa1]], 0 <= x <= aa1}, x] gives {0.0317268, {x -> 0.7481}}
The correct answer is at x=0, where Abs[f[0,aa1]]=0.0540933 but I have tried every maximization function I can think of and nothing will give me the correct answer. Can anyone help?
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