linear programming

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noun Mathematics.

any of several methods for finding where a given linear function of several nonnegative variables assumes an extreme value and for determining the extreme value, the variable usually being subjected to constraints in the form of linear equalities or inequalities.

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Origin of linear programming

First recorded in 1945–50

Words nearby linear programming

linear measure, linear momentum, linear motor, linear operator, linear perspective, linear programming, linear regression analysis, linear space, line art, linear-tracking, linear transformation

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How to use linear programming in a sentence

He looks like a man of the woods, but works at The Nerdery, programming for a healthy salary and benefits.
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Lepore has a different, though still linear, metaphor for the history of feminism: “a river, wending.”
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But the game, like many in this early age of computer programming, had a bug and would freeze up on occasion.
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The “Computer Rock” tunes, with references to BASIC programming, were almost immediately rendered obsolete.
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So I enrolled right away for programming classes, and found them boringly abstracted.
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The child now aims at constructing a particular linear representation, that of a man, a horse, or what not.
Children's Ways|James Sully
Curious differences appear in respect of the completeness of this linear noting or enumerating of features.
Children's Ways|James Sully
This habit of scribble may persist after a child attempts a linear description of the parts of an object.
Children's Ways|James Sully
Now the series treated of in the text agrees with this linear progression in nothing whatever but in being a progression.
A System of Logic: Ratiocinative and Inductive|John Stuart Mill
She says 'fifteen hundred feet'; the law says she ought t' read 'fifteen hundred linear feet.'
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British Dictionary definitions for linear programming

linear programming

noun

maths a technique used in economics, etc, for determining the maximum or minimum of a linear function of non-negative variables subject to constraints expressed as linear equalities or inequalities

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