I recently optimized a fairly large function with 100+ parameters using the Minimize command. In order to keep track of everything, I gave them logical names (ie. qk0, qk1...). Instead of preserving the order in the output, maple reported the solution as a set and not a list. Can I change this. I know that with minimize (lower-case) I can set location=true. Any ideas for Minimize? Also, what about exporting the results to Excel/Numbers for analysis? All help is greatly appreciated. Steve

I was exploring the Optimization package through Maple Help to find a solver that would be capable handling the task of minimizing an a set of otherwise linear equations that contains an absolute value term. Any suggestions?