[petsc-dev] basic - Simple damping line search.

[Barry Smith]

  Ok, I've tried to make it clearer in the manual pages commit 1fe2484545


> On Feb 11, 2017, at 4:19 PM, Mark Adams <mfadams at lbl.gov> wrote:
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> OK, but that may make mathematical sense ...
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> On Sat, Feb 11, 2017 at 2:28 PM, Barry Smith <bsmith at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:
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> Simple damping line search.
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> The default damping is one.
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> > On Feb 11, 2017, at 1:21 PM, Mark Adams <mfadams at lbl.gov> wrote:
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> > On Sat, Feb 11, 2017 at 1:17 PM, Barry Smith <bsmith at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:
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> > > On Feb 11, 2017, at 12:12 AM, Mark Adams <mfadams at lbl.gov> wrote:
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> > > The web page for linear search seems to be wrong for basic, right?
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> >   What is wrong with this?
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> > http://www.mcs.anl.gov/petsc/petsc-current/docs/manualpages/SNES/SNESLINESEARCHBASIC.html
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> > >  basic turns line search off. I hope.
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> > yes
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> > This is where the bad quote comes from:
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> > http://www.mcs.anl.gov/petsc/petsc-current/docs/manualpages/SNES/SNESLineSearchSetType.html
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> > > Mark
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