Re: Implementation of Minimize for integer programming in Mathematica 7
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- Subject: [mg96112] Re: Implementation of Minimize for integer programming in Mathematica 7
- From: Bill Rowe <readnews at sbcglobal.net>
- Date: Thu, 5 Feb 2009 04:40:18 -0500 (EST)
On 2/4/09 at 5:21 AM, niko.schwarz at googlemail.com (Niko) wrote: >Hello, I'm using Minimize to solve an integer program. It is =85 >dead slow. So, this is research - is it slow because of the >implementation of Minimize? Possibly. Note Minimize is primarily intended for symbolic problems. That is finding the minimum of something like (x-a)^2. The algorithms used in NMinmize are better suited for a numerical problem including finding integers that minimize a particular expression. But without details of the problem you are trying to solve, I've no idea whether this is really the source of your difficulty.