From owner-octave-sources at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu  Mon Mar 31 05:05:06 1997
Subject: Re: Nice modification! Re: solving nonlinear system of equations
From: Craig Earls <cpearls at ziplink dot net>
To: John Utz <spaz at u dot washington dot edu>
CC: octave-sources at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu
Date: Mon, 31 Mar 1997 06:04:19 -0500

John Utz wrote:
> 
> Hi Craig and All;
> 
>         I just wanted to say that i have made excellent use of Craig's
> modified fsolve. It seems like a very useful modification to the stock
> fsolve. I hope it makes it into the next release, unless there is some
> other reason that i am not aware of that makes it unsuitable.

I am working (slowly) on reimplementing fsolve so that it matches the
MATLAB fsolve. This will include the extended parameters already added,
and include support for providing a Jacobian function which can speed
finding the solution. If I could just convince my Instructors to lay off
for a while it would be finished!
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Craig P Earls				      cpearls at ziplink dot net
LT US Navy, MIT Ocean Engineering	      cpearls at mit dot edu
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