From 1083bac76513d696fcfb1947a9c60ca2af8dc0a2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: stevenj Date: Tue, 13 Jul 2010 13:09:40 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] clarification of SLSQP name darcs-hash:20100713170940-c8de0-ebb2b26e5d51502700aa17c65e66030b2a7e7f5c.gz --- slsqp/README | 5 +++++ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+) diff --git a/slsqp/README b/slsqp/README index a24b033..730988e 100644 --- a/slsqp/README +++ b/slsqp/README @@ -10,6 +10,11 @@ was originally written by Dieter Kraft and described in: control calculations," ACM Transactions on Mathematical Software, vol. 20, no. 3, pp. 262-281 (1994). +(I believe that SLSQP stands for something like Sequential +Least-Squares Quadratic Programming, because the problem is treated as +a sequence of constrained least-squared problems, but such a +least-squares problem is equivalent to a QP.) + The actual Fortran file was obtained from the SciPy project, who are responsible for obtaining permission to distribute it under a free-software (3-clause BSD) license (see the permission email from -- 2.30.2