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Re: [Help-glpk] How to determine which algorithm was used for my problem
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Michael Hennebry |
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Re: [Help-glpk] How to determine which algorithm was used for my problem file? |
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Mon, 9 Jan 2006 11:53:06 -0600 (CST) |
On Mon, 9 Jan 2006, Andrew Makhorin quoted me:
> > Probably it was an easy problem.
> > The number of possible objective values is at most 57.
> > That can be important if the solver notices that the
> > objective value must be an integer.
On Mon, 9 Jan 2006, Andrew Makhorin wrote:
> Cannot agree. Even there is the only possible objective value,
> for example, if the integer optimum is the same as the optimum of
> LP relaxation, the problem may be hard.
That was the reason for the "probably" and the "can be".
The problem *might* have been hard, but *probably* wasn't.
The impressed one certainly didn't give enough
information to cause an inference that it was hard.
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