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authorCarlos Hernandez <chernand@google.com>2014-08-07 17:51:38 -0700
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Update ceres to the latest version in g3android-wear-5.0.0_r1android-cts-5.1_r9android-cts-5.1_r8android-cts-5.1_r7android-cts-5.1_r6android-cts-5.1_r5android-cts-5.1_r4android-cts-5.1_r3android-cts-5.1_r28android-cts-5.1_r27android-cts-5.1_r26android-cts-5.1_r25android-cts-5.1_r24android-cts-5.1_r23android-cts-5.1_r22android-cts-5.1_r21android-cts-5.1_r20android-cts-5.1_r2android-cts-5.1_r19android-cts-5.1_r18android-cts-5.1_r17android-cts-5.1_r16android-cts-5.1_r15android-cts-5.1_r14android-cts-5.1_r13android-cts-5.1_r10android-cts-5.1_r1android-cts-5.0_r9android-cts-5.0_r8android-cts-5.0_r7android-cts-5.0_r6android-cts-5.0_r5android-cts-5.0_r4android-cts-5.0_r3android-5.1.1_r9android-5.1.1_r8android-5.1.1_r7android-5.1.1_r6android-5.1.1_r5android-5.1.1_r4android-5.1.1_r38android-5.1.1_r37android-5.1.1_r36android-5.1.1_r35android-5.1.1_r34android-5.1.1_r33android-5.1.1_r30android-5.1.1_r3android-5.1.1_r29android-5.1.1_r28android-5.1.1_r26android-5.1.1_r25android-5.1.1_r24android-5.1.1_r23android-5.1.1_r22android-5.1.1_r20android-5.1.1_r2android-5.1.1_r19android-5.1.1_r18android-5.1.1_r17android-5.1.1_r16android-5.1.1_r15android-5.1.1_r14android-5.1.1_r13android-5.1.1_r12android-5.1.1_r10android-5.1.1_r1android-5.1.0_r5android-5.1.0_r4android-5.1.0_r3android-5.1.0_r1android-5.0.2_r3android-5.0.2_r1android-5.0.1_r1android-5.0.0_r7android-5.0.0_r6android-5.0.0_r5.1android-5.0.0_r5android-5.0.0_r4android-5.0.0_r3android-5.0.0_r2android-5.0.0_r1lollipop-wear-releaselollipop-releaselollipop-mr1-wfc-releaselollipop-mr1-releaselollipop-mr1-fi-releaselollipop-mr1-devlollipop-mr1-cts-releaselollipop-devlollipop-cts-release
Please pay special attention to the changes in Android.mk. They are the only real changes I had to make. Bug: 16953678 Change-Id: I44a644358e779aaff99a2ea822387fe49ac26888
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+.. _chapter-history:
+
+=======
+History
+=======
+
+Ceres Solver grew out of the need for general least squares solving at
+Google. In early 2010, Sameer Agarwal and Fredrik Schaffalitzky
+started the development of Ceres Solver. Fredrik left Google shortly
+thereafter and Keir Mierle stepped in to take his place. After two
+years of on-and-off development, Ceres Solver was released as open
+source in May of 2012.
+
+Origin of the name
+------------------
+
+While there is some debate as to who invented the method of Least
+Squares [Stigler]_, there is no debate that it was `Carl Friedrich
+Gauss
+<http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Biographies/Gauss.html>`_
+who brought it to the attention of the world. Using just 22
+observations of the newly discovered asteroid `Ceres
+<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ceres_(dwarf_planet)>`_, Gauss used the
+method of least squares to correctly predict when and where the
+asteroid will emerge from behind the Sun [TenenbaumDirector]_. We
+named our solver after Ceres to celebrate this seminal event in the
+history of astronomy, statistics and optimization.