[R] Finding Infimum in R

[Bert Gunter]

Yup, she can decide.

-- Bert


Bert Gunter

"The trouble with having an open mind is that people keep coming along
and sticking things into it."
-- Opus (aka Berkeley Breathed in his "Bloom County" comic strip )


On Mon, Apr 10, 2017 at 7:56 AM, Boris Steipe <boris.steipe at utoronto.ca> wrote:
> Well - the _procedure_ will give a result.
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> But think of f(x) = {-1; x <= 1/3 and 1; x > 1/3
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> What should inf{x| F(x) >= 0} be?
> What should the procedure return?
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>> On Apr 10, 2017, at 10:38 AM, Bert Gunter <bgunter.4567 at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> Given what she said, how does the procedure I suggested fail?
>>
>> (Always happy to be corrected).
>>
>> -- Bert
>> Bert Gunter
>>
>> "The trouble with having an open mind is that people keep coming along
>> and sticking things into it."
>> -- Opus (aka Berkeley Breathed in his "Bloom County" comic strip )
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Apr 10, 2017 at 1:57 AM, Boris Steipe <boris.steipe at utoronto.ca> wrote:
>>> Are you sure this is trivial? I have the impression the combination of an ill-posed problem and digital representation of numbers might just create the illusion that is so.
>>>
>>> B.
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>>>> On Apr 10, 2017, at 12:34 AM, Bert Gunter <bgunter.4567 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Then it's trivial. Check values at the discontinuities and find the
>>>> first where it's <0 at the left discontinuity and >0 at the right, if
>>>> such exists. Then just use zero finding on that interval (or fit a
>>>> line if everything's linear). If none exists, then just find the first
>>>> discontinuity where it's > 0.
>>>>
>>>> Cheers,
>>>> Bert
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Bert Gunter
>>>>
>>>> "The trouble with having an open mind is that people keep coming along
>>>> and sticking things into it."
>>>> -- Opus (aka Berkeley Breathed in his "Bloom County" comic strip )
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Sun, Apr 9, 2017 at 5:38 PM, li li <hannah.hlx at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>> Hi Burt,
>>>>>   Yes, the function is monotone increasing and points of discontinuity are
>>>>> all known.
>>>>> They are all numbers between 0 and 1.  Thanks very much!
>>>>>  Hanna
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> 2017-04-09 16:55 GMT-04:00 Bert Gunter <bgunter.4567 at gmail.com>:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Details matter!
>>>>>>
>>>>>> 1. Are the points of discontinuity known? This is critical.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> 2. Can we assume monotonic increasing, as is shown?
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> -- Bert
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Bert Gunter
>>>>>>
>>>>>> "The trouble with having an open mind is that people keep coming along
>>>>>> and sticking things into it."
>>>>>> -- Opus (aka Berkeley Breathed in his "Bloom County" comic strip )
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Sun, Apr 9, 2017 at 1:28 PM, li li <hannah.hlx at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>>> Dear all,
>>>>>>> For a piecewise function F similar to the attached graph, I would like
>>>>>>> to
>>>>>>> find
>>>>>>>                                       inf{x| F(x) >=0}.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I tried to uniroot. It does not seem to work. Any suggestions?
>>>>>>> Thank you very much!!
>>>>>>>   Hanna
>>>>>>>
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