In http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ry5i8DGZrJs&list=EC3940DD956CDF0622&index=5&feature=plpp_video (approx. 2nd minute), Stephen Boyd says we are not allowed to use the notation:
It should be:
I guess I am somewhat of a repeat offender (I use the “min” notation a lot, “such that” not so much). The argument has to do with the English language. Apparently the Russian notation
is allowed (why can they use “min” and I can not?).
I prefer to use "min", especially when one augments the decision vector.
ReplyDeleteIf I use "minimize", the LaTeX looks ugly, as I like to specify what the decision vector is (and write it as a subscript to "minimize"). Using "min" is prettier since the decision vector can be specified under the "min", instead of to its southeast.
Can anyone tell me why "subject to" is necessary? Isn't it obvious that those are constraints?
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