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    The document tests different starting points for minimizing the surface area of a rectangular prism with fixed volume, finding that the optimal dimensions are always the same but the minimum surface area value varies depending on the starting point, because the approximation stays close to the starting point for the optimization.

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    The document tests different starting points for minimizing the surface area of a rectangular prism with fixed volume, finding that the optimal dimensions are always the same but the minimum surface area value varies depending on the starting point, because the approximation stays close to the starting point for the optimization.

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    Try Several Starting Points, Including (1,1), (-1,-1), (0,0), and (1000,1000) - What Do You Find? Why Do You Think This Is Happening?

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    The document tests different starting points for minimizing the surface area of a rectangular prism with fixed volume, finding that the optimal dimensions are always the same but the minimum surface area value varies depending on the starting point, because the approximation stays close to the starting point for the optimization.

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    Try several starting points, including (1,1), (-1,-1), (0,0), and (1000,1000).

    What do you find? Why do you think this is happening?

    C.
    Starting point Minimum surface area Optimal dimensions
    [1, 1] 22.352 1.175, 2.305
    [-1, 1] 22.352 1.175, 2.305
    [0, 0] 34.0012 1.175, 2.305
    [1000, 1000] 2.23e+07 1.175, 2.305

    We always have the same values for the optimal dimensions.


    The value of minimum surface area variates, because when we are starting with
    different points the approximations will be close to the starting point and will find
    the closest value for the optimization.

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