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ableal · 2010-04-19 · Original thread
Side-issue: why isn't Golden section better known ?

Luenberger's book [1] convinced me that a line search should be done with golden section, when I was hacking non-linear optimization. Yet I rarely see it mentioned - seems always to come down to binary search ...

[1] http://www.amazon.com/Linear-Nonlinear-Programming-David-Lue...

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