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Biconjugate directions

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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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  1. Van Wyk, D. J.,Generalization of Conjugate Direction Methods in the Optimization of Functions, Journal of Optimization Theory and Applications, Vol. 21, pp. 435–450, 1977.

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  2. Fletcher, R.,Conjugate Gradient Methods for Indefinite Systems, Proceedings of the Dundee Biennial Conference on Numerical Analysis, 1975, Edited by G. A. Watson, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, Germany, 1976.

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  3. Luenberger, D. G.,Introduction of Linear and Nonlinear Programming, Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, Reading, Massachusetts, p. 119, 1973.

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Communicated by A. Miele

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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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