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Variable explanations? #273

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It is an additional binary variable added to be able to solve the problem. These are very typical of the linear programming approach and are basically there to solve for the non-linearities in the equations.
In the specific case of P_def_bin1 it is used to solve the semi-continuous variable problem.
Please see this link, it is well explained with the corresponding equations: https://yetanothermathprogrammingconsultant.blogspot.com/2016/08/semi-continuous-variables.html

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