Optimality

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    The property of being optimal. countable, uncountable

Example

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"There is a good number of problems for which the Karush-Kuhn-Tucker conditions are insufficient to guarantee optimality, but this doesn't change the fact that these conditions are an indispensable tool for doing optimization."

Etymology

From optimal + -ity.

Related phrases

Pareto optimalitySchur-optimalityoptimality theoreticaloptimality theorysub-optimality

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