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My 21 June edit

I removed some parts which perhaps needs more explanation than fits in an edit summary:

  • I don't think shooting methods of any kind are used in initial value problems. That just does not make sense.
  • I also removed that multiple shooting has better "distribution of nonlinearity" over single shooting because I have no idea what that is supposed to mean.

Additionally, I'm wondering whether we should move the article to multiple shooting method, because that's the name that I'm familiar with. I'm not sure what the direct refers to. My guess is that in the context of optimal control or differential-equation-constrained optimization, there is a direct multiple shooting method that uses the direct equation and an indirect multiple shooting method that uses the adjoint equation. But multiple shooting can be used for any boundary value problem, not just those arising in optimal control, and if the optimal control setting is not discussed in the article then I don't think the article should be called direct multiple shooting method. But I'm not an expert on optimal control, so I may well be mistaken. -- Jitse Niesen (talk) 14:27, 21 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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