On Feb 25, 2012, at 17:52 , Steven G. Johnson wrote:

> Why would a problem with more equality constraints than unknowns have a 
> solution?

A lot of them are just artificial because of the way we generate the problem.
If I cleanup them I'll have less constraints than variables, with more involved 
expressions.

For example: I need to constraint some variables to: x / (y + z) = x' / (y' + 
z'), where any of the denominators may be 0 (in which case I don't care), so 
they are expressed as w (y + z) = x plus w (y' + z') = x', and with basic 
simplifications I'm able to reduce more variables than constraints in the 
problem.

By the way: how many variables/equality constraints can the methods (abled to 
deal with them) handle?
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