Talk:Operations Research/The Simplex Method

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--78.22.53.64 (talk) 08:25, 16 August 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Standard form?

The first section gives a linear program in "standard form"; however, it'd be best if the term "standard" was avoided as there may be no "standard". For example, the "standard form" of Introduction to Algorithms (Cormen, Leiserson, Rivest, Stein), a widely used textbook, looks like this:

--Adevish (talk) 21:54, 18 February 2009 (UTC)

What you want would have been more appropriate if the page was on wikipedia because a certain amount of latitude in notation is available on wikibooks. Most OR books include some definition of standard form, and this book is only obeying the established standard by including one. Nevertheless, if you still think it might confuse readers, perhaps we should use some other terminology, like canonical.--Shahab (talk) 08:34, 19 February 2009 (UTC)

The module could be edited to make it clear that it was defining "standard form" as such-and-such; the current phrasing doesn't make that clear. --Adevish (talk) 03:02, 21 February 2009 (UTC)

OK. Go ahead and fix it.--Shahab (talk) 04:31, 21 February 2009 (UTC)