>>>>> "Robert" == Robert Dodier <robert.dodier at gmail.com> writes:
Robert> About numerical minimization, I adapted a minimization
Robert> function named LBFGS to Maxima. It is a quasi-Newton
Robert> method. Originally Fortran from Netlib, translated via
Robert> f2cl, added Maxima glue code. The result is in
Robert> share/lbfgs/.
Actually, I have no need for either minpack nor lbfgs. :-)
But I think packages do slightly different things, with minpack
solving nonlinear equations and nonlinear least squares problems. The
user can choose if an explicit Jacobian is available or to use a
numerically-computed Jacobian.
Ray