Talk:Transportation problem: Difference between revisions

::::: After re-reading http://orms.pef.czu.cz/text/transProblem.html which is what is currently linked in the task description. I am not convinced I need to make any changes to my stupid implementation. The northwest corner method is about coming up with an initial feasible solution, so that other methods may be used, and I'm using that. Presumably the "method of potentials (with redistributive cycle)" would involve additional work, but for the task example there is no additional work to be performed. Also, there's no description of this method at that link. (And, yeah, I sort of assumed I had already conveyed this idea, but since the task author(s) presumably sort of assumed that they had adequately described the task, I figured that if I can expect more of them I should also expect more of myself.)

::::: So, just to re-iterate: task needs a better example. Task needs a better description.

::::: And, for example, costs of 4 6 8,: 4 2 10 would probably be better than what's currently listed. But an example with more than two suppliers, more than two consumers would be a much better test of this kind of code. If possible, also, we should have a local optimum cost near the values supplied by the northwest method which is not the global optimum.

::::: Anyways... for now, the task itself is defective and I think we need at least one implementation which clearly illustrates this defect. And, since no one else has volunteered to be the village idiot, I am electing myself to that position. --[[User:Rdm|Rdm]] ([[User talk:Rdm|talk]]) 18:43, 15 July 2016 (UTC)