From: Mithun Biswas on
I am trying to understand how 'fmincon' works for my
minimization problem from the printed output. Actually,
fmincon prints some output and then exits giving error
message. The output is like this :

End diagnostic information

9 0.0000000000 2.71580405e-03 0.0000271580
11 0.0027158040 4.56840681e-03 0.0000456828
13 0.0072842109 2.71580405e-03 0.0000271560
9 0.0000000000 2.71580405e-03 0.0027158040
11 0.0027158040 4.56840681e-03 0.0045684056
13 0.0072842109 2.71580405e-03 0.0027158020
9 0.0000000000 2.71580000e-03 0.0000271580
11 0.0027158000 4.56840000e-03 0.0000456828
13 0.0072842000 2.71580000e-03 0.0000271560
9 0.0000000000 2.71580000e-03 0.0027157999
11 0.0027158000 4.56840000e-03 0.0045683988
13 0.0072842000 2.71580000e-03 0.0027157980

Iter F-count f(x) max constraint Step-size
0 3 9.99967e-05 67.99
Infeasible start point

I think the first column give no. of iterations. But what
are the second, third and fourth columns ?. Why does MATLAB
print the same result four times ? What is F-count ? And
lastly, why does x take some values which is out of range
at the beginning of the next iteration ?