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Re: [Help-glpk] rfe: change confusing "Crashing..." message
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Michael Hennebry |
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Re: [Help-glpk] rfe: change confusing "Crashing..." message |
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Wed, 10 Jun 2009 11:35:48 -0500 (CDT) |
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On Wed, 10 Jun 2009, Andrew Makhorin wrote:
"Crashing" is a technique used to produce a good starting basis for the
simplex method. This term is widely used; see for example:
http://people.brunel.ac.uk/~mastjjb/jeb/or/lpadv.html .
Whence the term "crashing"?
It never did make any sense to me.
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