Paul Rubin wrote: > "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.
It's because solutions involving non-integer numbers are invalid in this context. And there are 12 unknowns but only 10 equations. -- "Codito ergo sum" Roel Schroeven -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
