Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!mcsun!ukc!strath-cs!cs.glasgow.ac.uk!rwi From: rwi@cs.glasgow.ac.uk (Dr Rob Irving) Newsgroups: comp.theory Subject: Re: Finding subsets of equations Summary: Using bipartite matching to identify solvable sets of equations Message-ID: <5391@vanuata.cs.glasgow.ac.uk> Date: 4 Jun 90 09:38:58 GMT References: <74444@aerospace.AERO.ORG> Organization: Computing Sci, Glasgow Univ, Scotland Lines: 8 In article <74444@aerospace.AERO.ORG>, abbott@aerospace.aero.org (Russell J. Abbott) writes: > Does anyone have or know of a solution to the following problem? > Suppose you have n equations in m unknowns, m > n and want to find a > subset of those equations in which the number of unknowns is no greater > than the number of equations. Is there a way to do that without a brute > force search through all possible combinations of equations with common > unknowns?