Bug#454469: ITP: lrslib -- enumerate vertices and extreme rays of a convex polyhedron

[David Bremner <bremner@unb.ca>]

Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: David Bremner <bremner@unb.ca>


* Package name    : lrslib
  Version         : 4.2b
  Upstream Author : David Avis <avis@cs.mcgill.ca>
* URL             : http://cgm.cs.mcgill.ca/~avis/C/lrs.html
* License         : GPL 2+
  Programming Lang: C
  Description     : Enumerate vertices and extreme rays of a convex polyhedron

A convex polyhedron is the set of points satisfying  a finite family of linear 
inequalities.  The study of the vertices and extreme rays of such systems is important 
and useful in e.g. mathematics and optimization.  In a dual interpretation, finding the 
vertices of a (bounded) polyhedron is equivalent to finding the convex hull (bounding 
inequalities) of an (arbitrary dimensional) set of points.  Lrs (lexicographic reverse search) 
has two important features that can be very important for certain applications: it works in exact 
arithmetic, and it consumes memory proportional to the input, no matter how large the 
output is.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.22 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_CA.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_CA.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash