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el_bakry

El-Bakry merit function

## Specification

Alias: none

Argument(s): none

## Description

The "el_bakry" merit function is the L2-norm of the first order optimality conditions for the nonlinear programming problem. The cost per linesearch iteration is n+1 function evaluations. For more information, see[19].