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+"""
+A place to collect the various options that "can be passed to the
+underlying engine." Just kidding, they're constants and you can't
+change them. But this makes the user interface real simple.
+"""
+
+# The absolute tolerance used in all "are these numbers equal" and "is
+# this number less than (or equal to) that other number" tests.
+ABS_TOL = 1e-7
+
+# The default output format for floating point numbers. It has been
+# chosen to match the ABS_TOL, in the sense that if x != y, then they
+# would not appear different when printed.
+FLOAT_FORMAT = '%.7f'
+
+# The underlying CVXOPT solver can output debug information, and I
+# guess, so could we. But we don't want to because it's ugly.
+VERBOSE = False