Tolerance in LinearProgramming
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- Subject: [mg98768] Tolerance in LinearProgramming
- From: Slava Rychkov <rychkov at sns.it>
- Date: Sat, 18 Apr 2009 03:39:25 -0400 (EDT)
Hi! I would like to understand better the meaning of the Tolerance parameter in LinearProgramming. For example, I would like to understand why M = {{1000., 300., -300.0}, {10., -2000., -1.}, {100000., -1000., -90.}}; LinearProgramming[{0, 0, 0}, M, {0, 0, 0}, {1, 1, 1}, Tolerance -> 0.1] does not find a solution, while with smaller Tolerance it does: LinearProgramming[{0, 0, 0}, M, {0, 0, 0}, {1, 1, 1}, Tolerance -> 0.01] Naively, I find this behavior counterintuitive. Thanks a lot, -- Vyacheslav Rychkov https://mail.sns.it/~rychkov Scuola Normale Superiore Tel: +39-050-509068 (office) Classe di Scienze +39-050-3820086 (home) Piazza dei Cavalieri, 7 +39-3403925168 (mobile) 56100 Pisa Fax: +39-050-509045 Italy E-mail: Rychkov at sns.it