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From: Scott Seidman <namdiesttocs@mindspring.com>
Newsgroups: comp.soft-sys.matlab
Subject: Re: Find Minimum
Date: 11 Feb 2008 16:45:10 GMT
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roberson@ibd.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca (Walter Roberson) wrote in news:fopten$3j$1
@canopus.cc.umanitoba.ca:

> No you cannot. Although you have a limited number of B and C to try,
> you have an infinite number of A to try. 

That's like saying that there's no solution for any unconstrained 
optimization problem, no?  People do this every day.

Yes, there's a way to solve it, but your discontinuities in parameters 
might mean that matlab's "off the shelf" functions might not do it for you, 
and in any case you need to be careful about falling into a local minima.

In general, the answer to "can matlab do this"-type problems is that if you 
can do it in any programming language, you can do it in matlab.

-- 
Scott
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