onverting</em> them to a conic form&#8212;using norms, in fact! This conversion
process poses some interesting scaling challenges. It is better if the modeler can eliminate
the need to perform this conversion.</p>
<p>For a simple example of such a change, consider the objective</p>
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<p>In exact arithmetic, this is precisely equivalent to</p>
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