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At Tue, 20 Feb 2007 01:14:15 -0800,
Tim Fenn wrote:
> That helps, yes.  It also might be worthwhile to note the bfgs2
> minimizer requires positive step_size values (which makes intuitive
> sense, but is not true of the bfgs/cgpr/cgfr minimizers).

Thanks, I've made it take fabs(step_size).

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