From help-octave-request at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu  Wed Jan 12 14:47:37 2000
Subject: RE: Fmins
From: "John W. Eaton" <jwe at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu>
To: Heber Farnsworth <FARNSWORTH at olin dot wustl dot edu>
Cc: "'Richard Davis'" <rjdv75 at earthlink dot net>,         "'help-octave@bevo.che.wisc.edu'" <help-octave@bevo.che.wisc.edu>
Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2000 14:48:35 -0600 (CST)

On 12-Jan-2000, Heber Farnsworth <FARNSWORTH at olin dot wustl dot edu> wrote:

| There is a function called nmsmax which uses the same algorithm as fmins but
| maximizes rather than minimizes.

I just picked up a copy of the tar file referenced on the web page.
In the comments for nmsmax, it says

  % This is a heavily modified version of FMINS.M supplied with 386-MATLAB
  % version 3.5j.

If we did that and distributed the results, I'd bet the MathWorks
wouldn't like it...

jwe



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