For convex cones, the concept of an extreme point is not of much use, since the origin would be the only candidate for an extreme point.

At first glance, degeneracy, a concept based on properties of extreme point solutions, does not seem to be as serious a problem for IPMs as it is for simplex methods.

Since the extreme points are sorted in an ascending order, and it is known that there is no more event other than the event at the current leftmost extreme point, and therefore we traverse from the root of the tree to the bottom while we re-evaluating the new interval values of each node and testing the inclusion of the extreme point in the interval.

This is not the case, however, because it is protected from the summer monsoon in the southwest by the Island of Sumatra, and from the winter monsoon in the northeast by the overhang of the peninsula of Cà Mau, the extreme point of the Indochinese Peninsula, a set of circumstances whose effect on alluvial deposits along the coasts has already been mentioned.

He measured bases on shore by running a ten-foot rod along a cord stretched tight between the extreme points, and kept in position by stakes, the direction being verified by a telescope.

With a pair of scissors I then lay open the upper surface of all the rays by a straight incision down the middle, from the circumfrance of the anal circle to the extreme point of the ray, and, folding down the two flaps thus produced from each adjoining rays together; when the whole of the flaps are thus united, I raise the border of the flat disc and form the whole into a globular shape, taking care to make the extreme points of the rays, with their eye-spots, touch the margin of the anal circle, which must be elevated likewise to a sufficient height, by cutting across the sand canal and other adhesions to meet the ends of the rays, and thereby form a globe.

Any claim that they violate her right to freedom in not applying heroic measures is one of the extreme points of ethical absurdity.

Their extreme points will be called consent-dissent, in relation to beliefs, and compliance-radicalism, in relation to behavior.

This is why photography needs to mediate its critical possibilities and limitations not just through a state-of-exception—or its cousin, the atrocity image—even if these things represent the extreme points of the social ontology of photography in the current period and should be defended as evidence of systemic crisis.

Extreme point

Meaning

Noun