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It is shown that the generalization of the conjugate direction method of Van Wyk (Ref. 1) is the direction counterpart to Fletcher's biconjugate gradient algorithm (Ref. 2).
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Ringwood, G.A. Biconjugate directions. J Optim Theory Appl 28, 259–261 (1979). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00933246
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