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From: PAR123 <reiser.paul@gmail.com>
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Subject: NMinimize problem
Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2014 04:01:32 +0000 (UTC)
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I have a function f[x] which I want to minimize, but its rather involved, it will return a number for a numerical x, but if x is symbolic, it's not going to happen. 

Trying to use NMinimize, I get errors that are consistent with NMinimize calling f[] with a symbolic argument. Is there something simple I am doing wrong?