basic solution

basic solution

[′bā·sik sə′lü·shən]

(industrial engineering)

A solution to a linear program model, consisting of m equations in n variables, obtained by solving for m variables in terms of the remaining (n-m) variables and setting the (n-m) variables equal to zero.

(mathematics)

In bifurcation theory, a simple, explicitly known solution of a nonlinear equation, in whose neighborhood other solutions are studied.

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