Re: [Help-glpk] invalid scale factor

[Michael Hennebry]

On Wed, 7 Jul 2004, Kümmel, Anne wrote:

> I have a quite big MIP problem with about 900 integer variables. Trying to 
> optimize with glpk I get the following message:
>
> ??? *** SEVERE CRITICAL ERROR *** from GLPK !
> lpx_set_rii: i = 5; rii = 0; invalid scale factor
>
> As I am not very familiar with MIP algorithms, can somebody explain what 
> exactly is going wrong here?

Not for sure.
I suspect an ill-conditioned matrix.
By any chance, is this a big-M formulation?

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