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[Phys-L] In Praise of MS Excel Linear Prog Solver



I stumbled on the following tutorial on a toy linear programming problem.
(If you don't use Stumble, you probably should, by the way).
This is optimizing an objective measure like profit, in face of constraints.

<http://www.economicsnetwork.ac.uk/cheer/ch9_3/ch9_3p07.htm>

The tutorial had just enough mistakes to allow you to massage the toy
problem helpfully. I was impressed. Given the head of steam to
formulate problems in hundreds of variables and hundreds of constraints
I firmly believe (as do the authors) that one can easily code them using Excel
with just that tutorial.....


Brian Whatcott Altus OK Eureka!
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