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Tolerance for whether a subregion is worth dividing


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**Specification**

- *Alias:* None

- *Arguments:* REAL

- *Default:* 0.0


**Description**


The ``global_balance_parameter`` controls how much global search is
performed by only allowing a subregion to be subdivided if the size of
the subregion divided by the size of the largest subregion is at least
``global_balance_parameter``.  Intuitively, this forces large
subregions to be subdivided before the smallest subregions are
refined.