So I have a function f(θ) that I can calculate numerically on a range 0 to 2pi. (specifically the minimum distance between the point on one keplerian orbit and another keplerian orbit).
I know from experiments that the function has one or two (or infinite) minima.
Using golden section search I can find one of these minima, but if there is another it would be good to know of that one as well.
Naively I could split up the range into sections, find the minima in each and hope the two minima are in different sections, but is there a better way?
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