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  • Electing a president

    Nov 7, 2020 voting linear-programming

    Every four years (barring death or some other catastrophe), the USA goes through the periodic madness of a presidential election. Wild behaviour, inaccuracies, mud-slinging from both sides have been central since George Washington's second term. And the entire business of voting is muddied by the Electoral College, the …

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  • Linear programming in Python (2)

    Oct 30, 2018 linear-programming python

    Here's an example of a transportation problem, with information given as a table: .transport table { width: 80%; table-layout: fixed;} th, td { text-align: center;} th { background: #DCDCDC;} Demands 300 360 280 340 220 750 100 150 200 140 35 Supplies  400 50 70 80 65 80 350 40 90 100 150 130 …

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  • Linear programming in Python

    Oct 28, 2018 linear-programming python

    For my elementary linear programming subject, the students (who are all pre-service teachers) use Excel and its Solver as the computational tool of choice. We do this for several reasons: Excel is software with which they're likely to have had some experience, also it's used in schools; it also means we don't have to …

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