Wednesday, December 14, 2011

Student posts (2)

One more for my collection (http://yetanothermathprogrammingconsultant.blogspot.com/2010/09/student-mails.html):

Bonjour,

Je viens de voir votre blog sur la programmation linéaire. En fait je débute sur GLPK et je voulais
vous poser la question: comment exprimer une condition dans une contrainte?
J'ai utilisé if mais ça marche pas.

Merci d'avance.
Cordialement,

Actually I understand enough French to understand this, but nevertheless it is somewhat indicative of how little effort is being employed before sending emails around asking for help.

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4 comments:

  1. Paul A. RubinDecember 15, 2011 at 5:14 PM

    Too bad you're not at a university. It might be entertaining to provide an answer after a colleague had translated it into, say, Swahili.

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  2. Bo JensenDecember 15, 2011 at 6:04 PM

    A rough Google Translate, for the non French speaking (like me) :

    Hello,

    I just saw your blog on linear programming. In fact I started and I wanted to GLPK
    ask yourself: how to express a condition in a constraint?
    I used but if it does not work.

    Thank you in advance.
    Sincerely,

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  3. fbahrDecember 15, 2011 at 6:43 PM

    @Bo: Com' on. As someone who once worked in France you really shouldn't need to use Google Translate for this three-liner.

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  4. Bo JensenDecember 16, 2011 at 4:09 AM

    @fbahr He he, there's a perfectly good reason for that, which is not suited for public posting :-)

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