Talk:Special Ordered Sets of Type N

Duplicate?

After all the really complicated explanation that probably needs to be cleaned up if this is to become a task, it sounds a lot like Greatest subsequential sum. Is this a duplicate? Or at least too close to add value? --Mwn3d 18:23, 25 January 2012 (UTC)

I can see how you might think that. My title is much better of course, and has a wiki link.
Nigel Galloway 14:38, 26 January 2012 (UTC)

If it is the same idea then I would suggest trying to get the existing task changed rather than make a whole new one, since there are already a lot of examples there. If the other task needs more information then bring it up on its talk page. We can rename that task and add WP links easily, but we need to agree on the name and the task content. --Mwn3d 15:16, 26 January 2012 (UTC)

They are quite not the same thing, though reading the WP article sheds no light on it: it's so badly written that if you are not familiar with linear programming, you can hardly know what it's talking about. SOS are special solution vectors, in this case likely a vector of "yes" or "no" components regarding if relevant variables are chosen or not; greatest subseq sum can be done as an application of it if you go this route. This does a better job explaining the concept behind SOS (it's listed above the WP article in a google search for "special ordered set", for a good reason probably). --Ledrug 16:23, 26 January 2012 (UTC)

Candidate for deletion?

This page has not received enough attention over the last 18 months. I suggest it be deleted in a weeks time? --Paddy3118 (talk) 04:29, 7 July 2013 (UTC)