The regularized decomposition only makes sense with a reasonable starting point. To illustrate this, consider the same example taking as starting point a highly negative value, e.g    are created....

The regularized decomposition only makes sense with a reasonable starting point. To illustrate this, consider the same example taking as starting point a highly negative value, e.g
 are created. Observe that, for many subsequent iterations, no new cuts are generated as the sequence of trial points aν move from each time by a change of 5/4 , until reaching 0 , where new cuts will be generated. Thus a long sequence of approximate serious steps is taken.