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Local extrema/ relative maxima and minima

[From: ] [author: ] [Date: 11-07-05] [Hit: ]
(For example, for x = 6, y = 69, which is greater than your absolute maximum.)Likewise the min at (3, -12) is local,......

Conversely, -x^4 has a global max. So does y = -5x^4 + 3x^2 + 2x - 40.

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No, that's not quite right.

The max at (-1, 20) is local, not absolute. (For example, for x = 6, y = 69, which is greater than your "absolute" maximum.)

Likewise the min at (3, -12) is local, not absolute. (For example, for x = -4, y = -61, which is less than your "absolute" minimum.

This function is unbounded above and below, so there is no absolute max or absolute min.

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You have it backwards. The function has a local maximum at (-1, 20) and a local minimum at (3, -12). The function does not have an absolute minimum or maximum. It tends to infinity as x tends to infinity, and to -infinity as x tends to -infinity.

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No, it doesn't have a local max/min..... the only thing that it has are absolute max and absolute min
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