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"D. Ismay"  wrote 

> > I am completely new to MatLab, and I have never actually
> > taken  a class in linear algebra, either  <snip>
> 
> Google:
> Results 1 - 10 of about 407,000 for Linear Algebra and its
applications. (0.20 seconds)
> 
> Help -- Matlab -- Getting Started
> 
> HTH, HAND

I'm sorry, I should have been more clear about my situation
for the sake of D. Umbass.  I have spent hundreds of dollars
on MatLab and linear algebra books, and I have been reading
through all of them.  I have not, however, found anything
that tells me how to optimize on particular elements of more
than one vector.  

Maybe I just missed it.  Maybe my grasp of linear algebra
isn't yet complete enough to see it when it's right in front
of me.  And so I'm asking if anyone can tell me on which
MatLab optimization functions to focus my attention, or if I
would have to program some custom routine to do what I want.