Gnumeric does not work on small problems for Lp
CU | FE | ||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Amount | 1E+30 | 0 | |||
Unit Profit | 0.5 | 0.3 | 5E+29 | ||
ST | |||||
Weight | 1 | 1 | <= | 1E+30 | 20000 |
Volume | 0.08 | 0.04 | <= | 8E+28 | 1200 |
Gnumeric cannot correctly solve this problem You (or your students) can find 10,000 CU and 10,000 FE I have used Gnumeric (and Excel and LPsove and gplk under Octave). I really prefer for this to work.