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A quadratic program (QP) is an optimization problem in which the objective function is quadratic and the feasible region is a convex polytope.

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Why are optimization problems often called "programs"?

When the term "linear programming" first came into use, computers were still very rare beasts, and the term "computer programming" wasn't that widely used. Here "programming" meant planning. As rese …
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