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In this paper we derive a lower bound on the average complexity of the Simplex-Method as a solution-process for linear programs (LP) of the type: We assume these problems to be randomly generated according to the Rotation-Symmetry-Model: *Let a 1 ,…,a m , v be distributed independently,...