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Can You Minimise This Function?

With certain constraints.

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Fletcher Thompson
Jan 07, 2025
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Usually, you can minimise x² + 3y² to 0 with real numbers, but I’ve placed some restraints on it: x + y must be 1.

Correctly ration your x and y and you can find…

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