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Malcolm McLean <malcolm.mclean5@btinternet.com> writes:
[...]
> I've been accused of talking nonsense.
> Now I might well be wrong, I'm not a mathematician. 
>
> But I've posed a problem and proposed an answer. No-one else has proposed
> an alternative solution, much less proved that their alternative is correct.
> They've just asserted that I am talking nonsense and nit picked at things
> like the jargon use of "minimise" to mean "any search for extrema".
> (It's fair enough for someone who doesn't understand to be confused, I
> don't blame anyone for that. It's the nit picking that gets wearing).

I do understand your claim that "minimise" is a jargon term for
"any search for extrema".  I simply don't believe it.

-- 
Keith Thompson (The_Other_Keith) kst-u@mib.org  <http://www.ghoti.net/~kst>
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