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- From: schoen@ghost.dsi.unimi.it
- Subject: Re: question: how to show that a set of linear inequalities is consistent?
- References: <batra.722077145@beagle> <1992Nov18.091337.23934@walter.cray.com>
- Organization: Computer Science Dep. - Milan University
- Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 10:50:23 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Nov19.105023.13209@ghost.dsi.unimi.it>
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- jwg@sparcman.cray.com (John Gregory) writes:
- >|>
- >|> I have a large set of linear inequalities (with about a 20 unknowns)
- >|> and I am about to use linear programming to solve for them.
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- >|> Is there an algorithm that will tell me that my set is consistent or
- >|> inconsistent?
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- [...]
- >This question really is not as well-posed as you may think. If a group
- >of inequalities is inconsistent (infeasible), there may be many ways of
- >removing a few to give a feasible set. It's not likely you can point at
- >one or two and say "those are the culprits".
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- Notice that the problem of finding a MINIMUM number of inequalities to remove in
- order to restore feasibility is NP-complete.
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