Rosenbrock Function

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The function

 f(x,y)=(1-x)^2+100(y-x^2)^2

that is often used as a test problem for optimization algorithms (where a variation with 100 replaced by 105 is sometimes used; Germundsson 2000). It has a global minimum of 0 at the point (1, 1).

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