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The following question is a generalization of a question asked earlier today:
Given vectors $\mathrm a, \mathrm b \in \mathbb R^n$, can one solve the following minimization problem in $x \in \mathbb R$
$$\begin{array}{ll} \text{minimize} & \| x \mathrm a - \mathrm b \|_1\end{array}$$
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