[SciPy-dev] fmin question

[eric jones]

Never mind -- just looked at the rosen function and now see that it
takes a vector as input.

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> Sent: Sunday, June 16, 2002 3:07 AM
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> Subject: [SciPy-dev] fmin question
> 
> 
> I was just to get up to speed on the optimization library, and got the
> following:
> 
> >>> optimize.fmin(optimize.rosen,[.3],xtol=1e-7)
> Optimization terminated successfully.
>          Current function value: 0.000000
>          Iterations: 19
>          Function evaluations: 56
> array([ 0.31000002])
> >>> optimize.fmin(optimize.rosen,[.3,.3],xtol=1e-7)
> Optimization terminated successfully.
>          Current function value: 0.000000
>          Iterations: 80
>          Function evaluations: 153
> array([ 1.00000001,  1.00000002])
> 
> I understand the 2nd argument to be an array of initial guesses.  If
so,
> shouldn't the results returned be the same?
> 
> eric
> 
> 
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