[sage-devel] Re: find_minimum_on_interval and #2607

2009-05-01 Thread Thomas Savitsky
On Fri, May 1, 2009 at 8:05 PM, William Stein wrote: > > On Fri, May 1, 2009 at 4:58 PM, Thomas Savitsky wrote: > > Hello all, > > > > I've noticed that the function find_minimum_on_interval makes no attempt to > > find "the" minimum on the inte

[sage-devel] find_minimum_on_interval and #2607

2009-05-01 Thread Thomas Savitsky
ould benefit sage imo. But if it were added, how should the end user be informed that the answer given may very wrong, and significant effort spent tuning options to the optimizer may be required for a good result? -- Thomas Savitsky --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ To post to