On Mon, Nov 02, 2009 at 09:49:06PM +0100, Penguin Lover Erik squawked:
> Is there some simple little program to solve assignment problems?
> Suppose that someone bought k meat (160), m fish (30) and n milk (15)
> for 700. So it should solve the equation k * 160 + m * 30 + n * 15 =
> 700. (A solution happens to be k = 4, m = 2, n = 0. An additional
> condition could be that he bought at most 6 items; k + m + n <= 6. That
> would eliminate solutions like k = 4, m = 0, n = 4.)
An odd question deserves an odd answer: try Metafont. Donald Knuth
implemented in it a general linear equation solver / inequality
optimizer, though learning the syntax can be a little bit tricky.
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