Re: [ROOT] How to get the maximum and minimum of a function

From: Rene Brun (Rene.Brun@cern.ch)
Date: Mon Nov 04 2002 - 22:29:51 MET


Hi Alexander,

Currently, you can only get an approximate value of the max/min of the
function in a range by getting the max/min of the histogram used
to draw the function.
I agree that it would be nice to have two functions computing the real
max/min. In fact, this function should return both the maximum of
the function as well as the x value corresponding to the maximum.
Any volunteer to implement this code?

Rene Brun

On Mon, 4 Nov 2002, Alexander Dietz wrote:

> Hello Rooters
> 
> suppose I define a function like
> 
> TF1* fun=new TF1("fun","[0] + [1]*x + [2]*x*x",0,1000);
> 
> with three parameters that are given later from input (e.g. a file).
> So how can I get the minimum and the maximum value (or position) of this
> function within its defined range (here: 0 to 1000) ?
> 
> 
> Cheers
> 
> 	Alexander Dietz
> 
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