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Re: Re: Problem with Maximize and conditions.

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  • Subject: [mg51140] Re: [mg51119] Re: Problem with Maximize and conditions.
  • From: Andrzej Kozlowski <akoz at mimuw.edu.pl>
  • Date: Wed, 6 Oct 2004 04:34:13 -0400 (EDT)
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On 5 Oct 2004, at 17:37, Steve Luttrell wrote:

> It seems
> that the conditions you feed to Minimize are "improved" by being 
> wrapped in
> Reduce.
>

Well, they are not just "improved" but actually "Reduced" to  
triviality. Reduce does all the work and Minimize is only left with 
something that looks like this (except that with more terms)


Minimize[x + y + z, {x == 20 && y == 4 && z == 19 ||
     x == 20 && y == 9 && z == 18}, {x, y, z}]


This sort of thing even Minimize can manage;-)


Andrzej Kozlowski
Chiba, Japan
http://www.akikoz.net/~andrzej/
http://www.mimuw.edu.pl/~akoz/


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