In this paper, it is shown how the Lipschitz continuity of a global optimiz
ation problem's objective function influences the termination of a Hansen t
ype method. The results concern applying different termination criteria to
a Hansen method and retrieving more information than explicitly supplied by
a certain criterion. A similar result for Moore-Skelboe methods arises, as
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