“…Numerical methods to compute best least squares solutions (see, e.g., the recent paper [22] on variants of Han's algorithm [12], whose fundamentals are the existence and characterization theorems for discrete inconsistent system proved in the latter paper; the recent work [5] provides two new proofs of Han's existence theorem; two additional works, [6] and [17], on the so-called hybrid algorithm). To the best of our knowledge, no extension of these results and methods to continuous and mixed linear inconsistent systems is still available.…”