On Tue, Jun 27, 2006 at 08:36:29PM +0200, Niklas Nebel wrote: > Leandro Silveira Monteiro da Silva wrote: > >My name's Leandro Silveira and I'm a Brazilian computer programmer just > >trying to find something nice to do. > >While visiting OpenOffice.org website, I got interested in doing some > >contributing work. > > That's great. > > >Actually, the task below interested me because I just love Optimization, > >Mathematics, Operations Research, and Engineering. Besides, some time ago I > >did some research about GRG (Generalized Reduced Gradient), the former > >computer algorithm used by Microsoft Excel to solve and optimize the > >results > >of a set of Linear Independent Equations. > >So... I'm writing for further information on this task... > > Kohei Yoshida is working on a solver component, see > http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Optimization_Solver and > http://kohei.us/ooo/solver/. It's probably better to help him with that > one instead of starting something new.
Kohei is currently using lp_solve to do the actual solving which uses simplex and branch and bound. Adding a GRG component in lp_solve would be the best solution. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
