How to determine whether a system of linear inequalities has

Frank Day

Frank Day

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2022-07-01

How to determine whether a system of linear inequalities has a positive solution or not?

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treccinair

treccinair

Beginner2022-07-02Added 18 answers

Your problem is known as Linear Programming (if you change positive to non-negative). Usually linear programming is thought of as an optimization problem, but in fact the optimization problem is equivalent to feasibility, which is exactly what you're asking: whether a system of inequalities has any solution.
If you really want to ask whether there's a positive solution, then what you can do is take your system of inequalities A x b and add the constraint x i m, maximizing over m. If the maximum is m > 0, then there is a strictly positive solution, otherwise there isn't.

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