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How can I determine the potential extrema on a function with a discontinuity?
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[QUOTE="Ray Vickson, post: 5997111, member: 330118"] As suggested in #3, look at the function in each of the four sub-intervals, so that you eliminate the absolute value signs. Then look at the derivative in each sub-interval, and either find stationary point(s) or look explicitly at the interval's end-points, because on a bounded interval, a max or min may not be where the derivative vanishes. Finding the stationary points will require numerical methods. [/QUOTE]
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