| Article ID: | iaor1991689 |
| Country: | Netherlands |
| Volume: | 47 |
| Issue: | 2 |
| Start Page Number: | 297 |
| End Page Number: | 299 |
| Publication Date: | Jun 1990 |
| Journal: | Mathematical Programming (Series A) |
| Authors: | Dax Achiya |
Although the theorems of the alternative have been well known for a long time, their relationship to linear least squares problems and steepest descent directions was revealed only recently. This relationship was used by the author to derive a new theorem of the alternative. The present research extends this theorem to the