Update README.md The README.md was woefully out of date, as it was advertising Ceres Solver as just a non-linear least squares library. Change-Id: I9a58fb8b63c08ee3852ffbae955e2ca8c90cd6d9
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@@ -1,5 +1,13 @@ -Ceres Solver - A non-linear least squares minimizer -=================================================== +Ceres Solver - A large scale non-linear optimization library +============================================================ + +Ceres Solver is an open source C++ library for modeling and solving +large, complicated optimization problems. It is a feature rich, mature +and performant library which has been used in production at Google +since 2010. Ceres Solver can solve two kinds of problems. + +1. Non-linear Least Squares problems with bounds constraints. +2. General unconstrained optimization problems. Please see [ceres-solver.org](http://ceres-solver.org/) for more information.