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It is also useful to assume that the rank of '''A''' is the number of rows. This results in no loss of generality since otherwise either the system '''Ax'''&nbsp;>=&nbsp;'''b''' has redundant equations which can be dropped, or the system is inconsistent and the linear program has no solution.<ref>{{harvtxt|Murty|1983|p=173}}</ref>

==simplexSimplex tableaux==

A linear program in standard form can be represented as a ''tableau'' of the form

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