From: iDRMRSR <alex.i.thymia@depression.org>
Newsgroups: alt.binaries.slack
Date: Thu, Jul 20, 2000 7:39 PM
Slack variable:. In an inequality constraint of the form g(x) <= b, the slack is b-g(x), which is designated by the slack variable, s. Then, the original constraint is equivalent to the defining equation, g(x) + s b, plus s >= 0.