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When you want to find the MAXIMUM product from two real numbers whose sum is 18, the answer is 81. But if you want to find the MINIMUM product of two real numbers whose sum is 18, there is a problem because if your two real numbers are 0 and 18, the product is 0. But it is not yet the minimum because there are still pairs of real numbers with a sum of 18 that gives lesser products. For example, -1 and 19 whose product is -19, -2 and 20 whose product is -40, and so on...
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