# Float Linear Constraints Implementation - Complete

**Date**: October 2025  
**Selen Version**: 0.9.1  
**Implementation Status**: ✅ **P0 + P1 COMPLETE**

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## Summary

Successfully implemented **6 float linear constraint methods** in Selen:

### P0 Methods (Basic Constraints)
1. ✅ `float_lin_eq` - Float linear equality
2. ✅ `float_lin_le` - Float linear less-than-or-equal  
3. ✅ `float_lin_ne` - Float linear not-equal

### P1 Methods (Reified Constraints)
4. ✅ `float_lin_eq_reif` - Reified float linear equality
5. ✅ `float_lin_le_reif` - Reified float linear less-than-or-equal
6. ✅ `float_lin_ne_reif` - Reified float linear not-equal

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## Test Results

### Test File: `tests/test_float_constraints.rs`

**Total: 25 tests, all passing**

#### Basic Float Linear Constraints (15 tests)
- ✅ 6 tests for `float_lin_eq` (simple, coefficients, negative, three vars, single var, infeasible)
- ✅ 4 tests for `float_lin_le` (simple, coefficients, negative, single var)
- ✅ 2 tests for `float_lin_ne` (simple, coefficients)
- ✅ 3 edge case tests (mismatched lengths, infeasible, loan example)

#### Reified Float Linear Constraints (10 tests)
- ✅ 4 tests for `float_lin_eq_reif` (true, false, force_true, force_false)
- ✅ 3 tests for `float_lin_le_reif` (true, false, force_true)
- ✅ 3 tests for `float_lin_ne_reif` (true, false, force_true)

### Build Status
```bash
cargo check     # ✅ Success
cargo test --test test_float_constraints  # ✅ 25 passed
cargo test --lib  # ✅ 237 passed, 0 failed, 1 ignored
```

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## Implementation Details

### Basic Methods Pattern
All three basic methods follow the same proven pattern:
1. Validate array lengths
2. Handle edge cases (empty arrays)
3. Scale variables by coefficients using `mul(var, Val::ValF(coeff))`
4. Sum scaled variables
5. Post appropriate constraint (equals/less_than_or_equals/not_equals)

### Reified Methods Pattern
All three reified methods use decomposition:
1. Validate array lengths → force reif_var to 0 if invalid
2. Handle edge cases → evaluate constant expression, set reif_var accordingly
3. Scale and sum variables (same as basic methods)
4. Create constant variable with target value
5. Post reified constraint using existing `int_eq_reif`, `int_le_reif`, `int_ne_reif`

**Key Insight**: The existing reified integer comparison methods work correctly with float variables because they operate on VarId (which can hold either int or float values).

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## Code Statistics

### Production Code
- **File**: `src/model/constraints.rs`
- **Lines Added**: ~200 lines (6 methods with documentation)
- **Section**: "📊 Float Linear Constraints (FlatZinc Integration)"

### Test Code  
- **File**: `tests/test_float_constraints.rs`
- **Total Lines**: ~480 lines
- **Test Count**: 25 comprehensive tests

### Examples
- **File**: `examples/constraint_float_linear.rs` (from P0)
- **Examples**: 4 real-world use cases

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## API Documentation

### float_lin_eq
```rust
pub fn float_lin_eq(&mut self, coefficients: &[f64], variables: &[VarId], constant: f64)
```
Post constraint: `sum(coefficients[i] * variables[i]) = constant`

### float_lin_le
```rust
pub fn float_lin_le(&mut self, coefficients: &[f64], variables: &[VarId], constant: f64)
```
Post constraint: `sum(coefficients[i] * variables[i]) ≤ constant`

### float_lin_ne
```rust
pub fn float_lin_ne(&mut self, coefficients: &[f64], variables: &[VarId], constant: f64)
```
Post constraint: `sum(coefficients[i] * variables[i]) ≠ constant`

### float_lin_eq_reif
```rust
pub fn float_lin_eq_reif(&mut self, coefficients: &[f64], variables: &[VarId], 
                         constant: f64, reif_var: VarId)
```
Post reified constraint: `reif_var ⇔ (sum(coefficients[i] * variables[i]) = constant)`

### float_lin_le_reif
```rust
pub fn float_lin_le_reif(&mut self, coefficients: &[f64], variables: &[VarId], 
                         constant: f64, reif_var: VarId)
```
Post reified constraint: `reif_var ⇔ (sum(coefficients[i] * variables[i]) ≤ constant)`

### float_lin_ne_reif
```rust
pub fn float_lin_ne_reif(&mut self, coefficients: &[f64], variables: &[VarId], 
                         constant: f64, reif_var: VarId)
```
Post reified constraint: `reif_var ⇔ (sum(coefficients[i] * variables[i]) ≠ constant)`

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## Impact on Zelen

### Coverage Improvement
- **Before**: 95% (integer only, broken float workaround)
- **After**: ~98-100% (native float support)

### Unblocked Use Cases
1. ✅ Financial calculations (loan.fzn, mortgage calculations)
2. ✅ Physics simulations (continuous quantities)
3. ✅ Optimization problems with float coefficients
4. ✅ Conditional float constraints (via reification)

### FlatZinc Compliance
Now supports 6 critical FlatZinc builtins:
- `float_lin_eq` ✅
- `float_lin_le` ✅
- `float_lin_ne` ✅
- `float_lin_eq_reif` ✅
- `float_lin_le_reif` ✅
- `float_lin_ne_reif` ✅

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## Performance Characteristics

### Time Complexity
- **Basic methods**: O(n) where n = number of variables
- **Reified methods**: O(n) + constant overhead for creating constant variable

### Space Complexity
- **Basic methods**: O(n) temporary storage for scaled variables
- **Reified methods**: O(n) + 1 constant variable

### Propagation
- Reuses existing propagators (`mul`, `sum`, `equals`, `int_eq_reif`, etc.)
- No new propagator implementation needed
- Efficient interval arithmetic

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## Next Steps

### Remaining P1 Features (from SELEN_MISSING_FEATURES.md)

#### 1. Float Comparison Reified Constraints (Section 2)
```rust
pub fn float_eq_reif(&mut self, x: VarId, y: VarId, reif_var: VarId);
pub fn float_ne_reif(&mut self, x: VarId, y: VarId, reif_var: VarId);
pub fn float_lt_reif(&mut self, x: VarId, y: VarId, reif_var: VarId);
pub fn float_le_reif(&mut self, x: VarId, y: VarId, reif_var: VarId);
pub fn float_gt_reif(&mut self, x: VarId, y: VarId, reif_var: VarId);
pub fn float_ge_reif(&mut self, x: VarId, y: VarId, reif_var: VarId);
```
**Note**: These may already work via `int_eq_reif` etc. since they work with VarId generically.

#### 2. Array Float Element (Section 4)
```rust
pub fn array_float_element(&mut self, idx: VarId, array: &[f64], result: VarId);
```

#### 3. Type Conversions (Section 5)
```rust
pub fn int2float(&mut self, int_var: VarId) -> VarId;
pub fn float2int(&mut self, float_var: VarId) -> VarId;
```

#### 4. Float Arithmetic (Section 6)
```rust
pub fn float_plus(&mut self, x: VarId, y: VarId, z: VarId);
pub fn float_minus(&mut self, x: VarId, y: VarId, z: VarId);
pub fn float_times(&mut self, x: VarId, y: VarId, z: VarId);
pub fn float_div(&mut self, x: VarId, y: VarId, z: VarId);
pub fn float_abs(&mut self, x: VarId, y: VarId);
pub fn float_sqrt(&mut self, x: VarId, y: VarId);
pub fn float_pow(&mut self, x: VarId, y: VarId, z: VarId);
pub fn float_exp(&mut self, x: VarId, y: VarId);
pub fn float_ln(&mut self, x: VarId, y: VarId);
pub fn float_log10(&mut self, x: VarId, y: VarId);
pub fn float_log2(&mut self, x: VarId, y: VarId);
pub fn float_sin(&mut self, x: VarId, y: VarId);
pub fn float_cos(&mut self, x: VarId, y: VarId);
pub fn float_tan(&mut self, x: VarId, y: VarId);
pub fn float_asin(&mut self, x: VarId, y: VarId);
pub fn float_acos(&mut self, x: VarId, y: VarId);
pub fn float_atan(&mut self, x: VarId, y: VarId);
```
**Note**: Some may be P2 priority. Check actual FlatZinc usage.

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## Files Modified/Created

### Modified
- ✅ `src/model/constraints.rs` (+200 lines)
- ✅ `SELEN_MISSING_FEATURES.md` (updated status)

### Created
- ✅ `tests/test_float_constraints.rs` (480 lines, 25 tests)
- ✅ `examples/constraint_float_linear.rs` (from P0, 188 lines)
- ✅ `FLOAT_LINEAR_IMPLEMENTATION_SUMMARY.md` (from P0)
- ✅ `FLOAT_LINEAR_COMPLETE_SUMMARY.md` (this file)

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## Completion Timeline

- **P0 Implementation**: ~2 hours (Oct 2025)
  - 3 basic methods + tests + examples
  
- **P1 Reified Implementation**: ~1 hour (Oct 2025)
  - 3 reified methods + 10 additional tests
  
- **Total**: ~3 hours for 6 critical methods

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## Quality Metrics

### Code Quality
- ✅ Consistent with existing patterns
- ✅ Comprehensive documentation
- ✅ Clear error handling
- ✅ Edge case coverage

### Test Coverage
- ✅ 25 comprehensive tests
- ✅ Edge cases tested
- ✅ Reification bidirectional tested
- ✅ Real-world examples

### Integration
- ✅ Zero breaking changes
- ✅ All existing tests pass (237/237)
- ✅ Compiles cleanly
- ✅ FlatZinc compliant

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## Conclusion

✅ **Mission Accomplished**

Successfully implemented all **P0 and P1 float linear constraint methods** for Selen:
- 3 basic methods (float_lin_eq/le/ne)
- 3 reified methods (float_lin_eq/le/ne_reif)
- 25 passing tests
- Zero test failures
- Zero breaking changes
- Production ready

**Impact**: Unblocks Zelen's path to 100% FlatZinc coverage for float linear constraints.

**Next**: Continue with array_float_element, int2float, float2int (remaining P1 features).

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**Implementation Date**: October 2025  
**Selen Version**: 0.9.1  
**Status**: ✅ **PRODUCTION READY**  
**Test Status**: ✅ **25/25 PASSING**  
**Build Status**: ✅ **CLEAN**
