From help-request at octave dot org Wed Jun 15 11:14:47 2005
Subject: George Dantzig (was "Octave-forge: you get what you pay for")
From: Mike Miller <mbmiller at taxa dot epi dot umn dot edu>
To: Vic Norton <vic at norton dot name>
cc: Help-Octave List <help at octave dot org>
Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2005 11:07:04 -0500 (CDT)

On Wed, 15 Jun 2005, Vic Norton wrote:

>   ## Problem 6
>   %  Linear Programming 1: Introduction
>   %  Dantzig, George B. & Thapa, Mukund N.
>   %  Springer-Verlag, New York, 1997
>   %  Example 1.4 (A Blending Problem)


Side note...

Does everyone know the story of George Dantzig?  The most interesting 
thing, I thought, was his grad school homework story.  It's all true. 
Read it here:

http://taxa.epi.umn.edu/rmnews/2005/msg00119.html

Mike



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