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final_solutions

Number of designs returned as the best solutions

## Topics

This keyword is related to the topics:

- method_independent_controls

## Specification

Alias: none

Argument(s): INTEGER

Default: 1

## Description

The `final_solutions` controls the number of final solutions returned by the iterator as the best solutions.

For most optimizers, this is one, but some optimizers can produce multiple solutions (e.g. genetic algorithms).

When using a `hybrid` strategy, the number of final solutions dictates how many solutions are passed from one method to another.

## Examples

In the case of sampling methods, if one specifies 100 samples (for example) but also specifies `final_solutions` = 5, the five best solutions (in order of lowest response function value) are returned.