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Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2009 00:57:51 -0700 (PDT)
From: "Luc Maisonobe (JIRA)" <jira@apache.org>
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Subject: [jira] Commented: (MATH-246) Simplex Method Implementation
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Luc Maisonobe commented on MATH-246:
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Another issue that bothers me.
There is a constructor for a linear constraint with vectors for both left hand side and right hand side that subtracts both and put 0 as the scalar on the right hand side.
This seems odd to me.
If for example we call it with lhs = { 2, 3 }, rhs = { 1, 1 }, r = EQ this means we set up the constraint
(2 - 1) x + (3 - 1)y = 0 or x + 2y = 0. Users may think it would be equivalent to the two constraints 2x=1 and 3y=1 which is not the case. For inequality constraints, this looks even more strange.
If there is a use for this in a specific context, I suggest the subtraction be done at user code level before calling the constructor rather than providing support in the linear constraint class for this.
I suggest to drop this constructor, except if you can provide me some hints I will pour in the javadoc to help users.

> Simplex Method Implementation
> -----------------------------
>
>                 Key: MATH-246
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MATH-246
>             Project: Commons Math
>          Issue Type: New Feature
>            Reporter: Benjamin McCann
>            Assignee: Luc Maisonobe
>             Fix For: 2.0
>
>         Attachments: newfiles.zip
>
>
> I've created an implementation of the Simplex algorithm for optimizing systems of constrained linear equations that I'd like to contribute.

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