point are summarized in a table that is referred to as a tableau.

A tableau is useful because there are numerous calculations to keep track of: a tableau
summarizes the results of each iteration.Among the information contained in a tableau
are
the values of all basic variables (the nonbasic variables have values of zero), the value of
the
objective function at that extreme point, and whether or not the solution is optimal. If a
solution
is not optimal, the numerical values in the tableau can be manipulated to obtain the
values of a similar tableau for the next extreme point. The process continues in this
manner,
with ever-improving solutions, until the optimal extreme point has been identified.
In LP problems that have all less-than-or-equal-to constraints, the standard form and
the tableau form are the same. That is not the case for problems that have equal-to or
greater-than-or-equal-to constraints. A later section will address those kinds of
constraints
and show how to obtain the tableau form of the problem.
Once an LP model has been expressed in tableau form, the initial simplex tableau can be
developed.
In order to be able to refer in a general way to a simplex