[13270] in Athena Bugs
Maple's minimize()
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Geoffrey Coram )
Thu Mar 2 10:25:59 1995
To: reidmp@MIT.EDU
Cc: bugs@MIT.EDU
Date: Thu, 2 Mar 95 10:25:40
From: gjcoram@MIT.EDU (Geoffrey Coram )
Does this seem strange to you, too?
From the Maple help file (?minimize)
> minimize(x^2 + y^2, {x, y}, {x=-10..10, y=10..20});
0
I'm sorry, but constrained to 10<y<20, the minimum is 100!
Trying it myself:
> minimize(x, {x}, {x=5..10});
5
> minimize(x^2, {x}, {x=5..10});
0
Hmm. Is this a bug or a feature? I can't find it mentioned that
minimize() over a range doesn't work except for a linear equation.
GJC
(I'm using Maple V Release 3 for Windows, patchlevel 3.)
