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The problems in this directory were collected from the LINDO textbook,

"Optimization Modeling with LINDO", 5th edition. Contact LINDO Systems


for information on obtaining a copy of the LINDO text.
Solving Textbook Problems on Your Own Computer
---------------------------------------------When you solve textbook problems on your own computer, the
answers may be slightly different than those found in the
text book. The differences will be of two kinds:
a) approximately same value except different in the
5th, or even less significant, decimal place,
b) subtantially different value for a variable, slack,
reduced cost, or dual price.
Differences of type (a) tend to result from differences in
numerical accuracy between the computer used for textbook
illustrations and that of the user. LINDO runs on a wide
variety of computers, not all having the same numerical
precision.
Differences of type (b) can occur when the problem has alternate
optimal solutions. All alternate optima have the same objective
function value. Different types of computers, because of
differing numerical precision, may take slightly different paths
to finding an optimal solution, so different computers may find
different alternate optima.
So a general rule is: if your objective function value agrees to
five significant figures with that in the textbook, then
everything is OK.

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