Hello there, I am a mechanical engineer, retired now, and use OpenOffice under Debian Lenny. Sometimes I use an optimizationprogram I have used all my live when in business, to find solutions in my technical work. It could handle all the non-linear problems I have encountered. The program is pretty old, about 30 years. It is free software now, written in Fortran, although I had it translated to Turbo Pascal. The TurboPascal version I still use. The program (MINI) is rather small, about 800 lines of code. It can handle constrains, can handle any amount of variables and is fast (nowadays!). I have both the the sources of course. You may have it, but I can not give much assistance, I am not a programmer. I can explain how it works, give examples and so on. I live in the Netherlands, perhaps there is someone in our country who can do the job of putting it into Calc. Kind regards,
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