RE: Fmins

[John W. Eaton]

On 12-Jan-2000, Heber Farnsworth <address@hidden> 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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