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fas <faisalmufti@gmail.com> wrote in message <6d9101fd-1d79-4642-85a0-4a12ba228829@v18g2000pro.googlegroups.com>...
> On Jan 25, 1:49=A0am, "Matt " <mjacobson.removet...@xorantech.com>
> wrote:
> > fas <faisalmu...@gmail.com> wrote in message <9dc7b2b2-6103-47dc-a474-c7f=
> da1551...@t26g2000prh.googlegroups.com>...
> > > I want to minimize this constraint least square to find a and b. Had
> > > it be a linear system it would be probably easy to solve this
> > > constraint problem. =A0But I have this function of non linear equations
> > > to solve.
> > > f=3Dsum[x*x']*[a,b,b^2/(4*a)]' - sum[y*x] +lambda*[-b^2/(4*a^2), (1/2)*
> > > (b/a),-1]'=3D0
> > > Here x,y are vectors in R3 =A0and sum is over i to n;
> > > Can anyone help me solve this optimization.
> >
> > Probably not, since you've told us neither what the objective function is=
> , nor the constraint.
> >
> > It looks like you've given us Euler's equation above, but it will not be =
> enough. We will need at minimum to know the
> 
> The constraint in this case is b^2/(4*a)=3Dconstant.
> It is some what similar to the case of first example of Lagranage
> multipliers at
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lagrange_multipliers
> where the third equation is non linear.

I don't think we're going to be able to help you without the original problem spelled out in full.