Hi Marshall,

Thank you for replaying.  I do realize that this could probably be
done by hand.  It is the easiest funcation that I have.  But I wanted
to start with this one to get my feet wet.  I have much bigger ones
like the Ackley function.

I am trying to get my head around what sage is producing.  There are
an infinate number of optima for f=(sin(5*pi*x))^6.  Sage is producing
only two values.  I would think that part of solving this using sage
is to limit x to values between 0 and 1.  I believe that for
f=(sin(5*pi*x))^6 there are 5 or 6 maximums and 5 or 6 miniums for x
values between 0 and 1.  So, what is [x == 0, x == (1/10)]?

Thanks
Mike


On Mar 8, 7:50 am, Marshall Hampton <[email protected]> wrote:
> That particular example is almost easier to do by hand, but one way in
> Sage is:
>
> f=(sin(5*pi*x))^6
> solve(diff(f,x)==0,x)
>
> which gives
>
> [x == 0, x == (1/10)]
>
> Of course there are a lot more solutions than those in this case;
> those might have been chosen by taking one branch of the inverse
> sine.
>
> -M.Hampton
>
> On Mar 7, 2:47 pm, Mike Brown <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>
>
> > Hello,
>
> > I want to say that I just learned about Sage.  I tried installing it,
> > but I didn’t have enough memory and then I saw that I could run it
> > online.  Impressive!  What it can do is amazing.
>
> > I have been playing around with sage and reading the documentation.  I
> > am trying to find the local maximums for some continuous functions for
> > define domain ranges.  I tried taking the derivative and finding out
> > where it is 0.  That would tell me the local min and maxs.  Then I was
> > going to figure out which ones are the local maxs.
>
> > Here is one of the equations: f(x) = (sin (5*PI*x))^6, where 0 <= x
> > <=1.  I am trying to find out what are the local maximums of that
> > equation.  Can someone point me in the right direction?  Can sage do
> > that directly?  Is there a way to set the domain (ie 0 <= x <=1)?  Any
> > help is greatly appreciated.
>
> > Thanks
> > Mike Brown- Hide quoted text -
>
> - Show quoted text -

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