local maximum in a sentence

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1. It is impossible to produce a local maximum of the magnetic-field magnitude in free space; however, a local minimum may be produced.
2. Please be aware, however, that you may get stuck in a local maximum if there are many hills and the population is too small.
3. For multimodal distributions, this means that an EM algorithm may converge to a local maximum of the observed data likelihood function, depending on starting values.
4. Suppose that \ displaystyle x _ 0 is a local maximum ( a similar proof applies if \ displaystyle x _ 0 is a local minimum ).
5. Parts of the state's northeastern coast farther away from the hurricane's center also saw formidable rainfall, with a local maximum of at Jacksonville.
6. The zero value field is at a local maximum rather than a local minimum of its potential energy, much like a ball at the top of a hill.
7. In accordance with theoretical calculations, which predict a local maximum for relevant relativistic effects for gold atoms, none of these other interactions are as strong as aurophilicity.
8. In a dynamical system, "'bistability "'means the system has two local minima of potential energy separated by a peak ( local maximum ).
9. No tractable algorithm is known for solving this problem exactly, but a local maximum likelihood can be derived efficiently using the Baum Welch algorithm or the Baldi Chauvin algorithm.
10. If the function is smooth, or, at least twice continuously differentiable, a critical point may be either a local maximum, a local minimum or a saddle point.