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Re: 1D minimization additions and doc comment


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. 
 > 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.
 > 

I've added the patch.
Thanks.
Brian Gough


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