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  Generally, optimizers are algorithms that will either
  <a href="../../../../../../org/apache/commons/math3/optim/nonlinear/scalar/GoalType.html#MINIMIZE"><code>minimize</code></a> or
  <a href="../../../../../../org/apache/commons/math3/optim/nonlinear/scalar/GoalType.html#MAXIMIZE"><code>maximize</code></a>
  a scalar function, called the
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