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Re: 1D minimization additions and doc comment
- From: Brian Gough <bjg at network-theory dot co dot uk>
- To: spirko at lehigh dot edu
- Cc: gsl-discuss at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: Thu, 4 Apr 2002 21:21:11 +0100 (BST)
- Subject: Re: 1D minimization additions and doc comment
- References: <200204022013.PAA17537@Topquark.physics.lehigh.edu>
Jeff Spirko writes:
>
> I threw together functions for accessing the values of the function
> being minimized, which are stored in the minimizer structure. I
> also included a doc string for the functions (check this). It
> seemed cleaner to do it this way than to access the structure
> myself. A patch is attached, referenced to gsl-1.1.1.
Thanks. I'll take a look at this.
Brian
> Also, the use of the terms x_lower, x_upper, and minimum in the docs
> caused me to look at the source code to make sure that minimum
> wasn't really f_minimum. Maybe it should be called x_min instead?
> Earlier in the Overview section these variables are referred to as
> a, b, and x, though I'd prefer the longer names for the code. Maybe
> there should be a sentence relating the two sets of names.
>