"Carl Banks" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > No kidding--it's a constrained integer programming problem. Those can > be pretty nasty. This one is pretty simple, being linear with only 12 > unknowns. However, they get very difficult very fast. There are whole > optimization textbooks written on this kind of problem.
Why is it an integer programming problem rather than just a set of simultaneous equations? It looks offhand like 12 equations in 12 unknowns that can be solved with linear algebra, but I haven't tried solving it. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list