In message <0033dace$0$9725$c3e8...@news.astraweb.com>, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> Minimizing functions of two variables is difficult, as a general rule. > Nevertheless, there are tools for doing so. Check out SciPy. The name "Marquadt-Levenberg" comes to mind. As I recall, it involved finding zeroes of the various partial derivatives. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
