Most programming languages support global variables, but they tend to do it in different ways. For example, PHP uses the global keyword to access a variable declared outside any function: ...

Functions are fundamental to code organization; they exist in all higher order programming languages. Generally, functional programming means using functions to the best effect for creating clean and ...

The following is a simple mixed integer programming problem. Details can be found in Example 3.8 in the "Examples" section. data; input _row_ $10. choco gumdr ichoco igumdr _type_ $ _rhs_; datalines; ...

In the first part of this paper, the concept of logical reduction is presented. Minimal preferred variable inequalities are introduced, and algorithms are given for their calculation. A simple ...

This paper presents a realistic chemical-process optimization problem in detail, and notes the fact of its equivalence to the general nonlinear programming problem. The eight equality constraints that ...