
What is the difference between minimum and infimum?
Mar 27, 2013 · What is the difference between minimum and infimum? I have a great confusion about this.
What are the common abbreviation for minimum in equations?
May 9, 2017 · I'm searching for some symbol representing minimum that is commonly used in math equations.
Minimum cardinality of the set of values for a sequence …
Nov 29, 2025 · The result is an explicit construction of a cycle of any desired length $n$, with the smallest number of distinct values satisfying $n \le m (m-1)+1$. Since that is also a provable …
Finding minimum value of a function - Mathematics Stack Exchange
Jun 9, 2022 · Confusion about x First, you are confused here "To find the minimum value of x which produces a minimum value of F, we are required to do dF/dx = 0. (Differentiate F with …
Minimum values of multiple modulus function - Mathematics …
Jan 31, 2021 · 2 For an even number of data their median minimizes the sum of the absolute deviations. As in our case the median equals $0$, the minimum is $6$.
Difference between maximum and minimum? - Mathematics Stack …
Nov 6, 2011 · The Extreme Value Theorem guarantees that a continuous function on a finite closed interval has both a maximum and a minimum, and that the maximum and the minimum …
linear algebra - Setting the gradient to 0 gives a minimum ...
Mar 19, 2020 · In general, yes, setting the gradient to zero could be an extremum or inflection, etc. However, with least squares, the problem is convex, and without getting lost in the details, …
combinatorics - Efficient computation of the minimum distance of …
In this way, you have to generate only a small fraction of all the codewords to find the minimum distance, and the idea can be generalized to any linear code. The first step then is to find a …
calculus - Minimum vs lowerbound - Mathematics Stack Exchange
Nov 15, 2015 · What is the difference between the minimum value and the lower bound of a function? To me, it seems that they are the same.
derivatives - finding the minimum speed of a particle
Mar 30, 2021 · finding the minimum speed of a particle Ask Question Asked 4 years, 8 months ago Modified 4 years, 8 months ago