# golden section search

> technique for finding the maximum of a unimodal function by probing a sequence of points whose distances decrease in the golden ratio at each step

**Wikidata**: [Q2424337](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2424337)  
**Wikipedia**: [English](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden-section_search)  
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## References

1. Freebase Data Dumps. 2013