On 11/10/2015 08:37 AM, Edward A. Berry wrote:
> Thanks, Dale and others. In trying to answer the question I discovered
> that I did not know the answer.
>
> But I should correct some of my mis-statements. If I had taken
> a minute to check wikipedia instead of going on 3-decades-old
> memories-
>
> -The full matrix optimization being described is called the Gauss-
> Newton algorithm (GNA) or just "Newton-type methods".
> Newton-Raphson is something else. (one wonders what kind of computer
> Newton used to do his iterations!)
Here's a pointer :o)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_computer
lukasz
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