Optimization

["Jacob van Wyk" <jlvw@rau.ac.za>]

Can anybody please help.

Given numbers (y1, . . .,yn),  I wish to find the values of a and b
that minimizes the following:

SUM(yi/(a + sin(i)*b)), where the SUM is for i=1,.....,n, and where a
and b > 0.

Much appreciated.
Jacob


Jacob L van Wyk
Department of Mathematics and Statistics
Rand Afrikaans University
P O Box 524
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South Africa
Tel: +27-11-489-3080
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