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Debugging

Run your new code. When your steepest descents is working properly, you will find that (after a few initial steps) the fourth column of the output is generally small, something on the order of 1e-2. Also, you will find that, as you approach the minimum, the above expansion for tex2html_wrap_inline393 gets better and better, so that the fourth column should continue getting closer to zero as the algorithm converges.



Tomas Arias
Sun Apr 15 22:02:59 EDT 2001