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<h3 class="section">11.9 Function Handles, Inline Functions, and Anonymous Functions</h3>
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It can be very convenient store a function in a variable so that it
can be passed to a different function. For example, a function that
performs numerical minimization needs access to the function that
should be minimized.
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