Wanted: minimization routine

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From: Matt Austern
Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1993 15:25

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Does anybody out there have a recommendation for a minimization
routine?  I'll be using it to minimize a function of two or three
variables; the function is reasonably well behaved, but I am not able
to calculate the derivatives very easily.

Code in C or C++ would be preferable.  

Thanks!


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