Help me find this interesting website when my Google-Fu is weak!
May 27, 2015 11:57 AM Subscribe
During my freshman year of college, I was in a class which used an interesting website as part of a lab problem. I find many references to the problem it solves, but no links to this specific website.
I kind of want to show of the ridiculousness of some of the answers this website generated.
The class was Introduction to Operations Research and Industrial Engineering, Fall 1996.
The problem is apparently (upon Googling) a very common problem used to introduce students to the OR&IE concept of Linear Programming. That is to say, how one would go about solving a problem like:
Maximize x1 + x2 - x3 + a1 - b2 + c3
Subject to x1 < 5, b2 > 12, c3 < -4, (and other constraints).
The example problem is to find a monthly diet of foods which costs the least amount of money while maximizing the amount of nutrients according to (for example) US RDA or other nutritional guidelines.
The website had you check off foods from a list of those you were willing to eat, and would then merrily go about calculating your minimum cost, maximum nutrition diet. This was invariably something laughable like a 25 pound tub of peanut butter, 12 heads of lettuce, and 10 boxes of corn flakes.
The class was Introduction to Operations Research and Industrial Engineering, Fall 1996.
The problem is apparently (upon Googling) a very common problem used to introduce students to the OR&IE concept of Linear Programming. That is to say, how one would go about solving a problem like:
Maximize x1 + x2 - x3 + a1 - b2 + c3
Subject to x1 < 5, b2 > 12, c3 < -4, (and other constraints).
The example problem is to find a monthly diet of foods which costs the least amount of money while maximizing the amount of nutrients according to (for example) US RDA or other nutritional guidelines.
The website had you check off foods from a list of those you were willing to eat, and would then merrily go about calculating your minimum cost, maximum nutrition diet. This was invariably something laughable like a 25 pound tub of peanut butter, 12 heads of lettuce, and 10 boxes of corn flakes.
Response by poster: That's the problem, and the website is similar enough that it would work! Thanks.
posted by tckma at 5:36 AM on May 28, 2015
posted by tckma at 5:36 AM on May 28, 2015
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I couldn't find an old website from 1996, but found a similar website
posted by snowysoul at 7:30 PM on May 27, 2015