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Engineering Optimization: Applications, Methods, and AnalysisAvailable to Purchase
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9781118936337
No. of Pages:
770
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ASME Press
Publication date:
2018
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27 Discrete and Integer Variables Available to Purchase
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6
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Published:2018
Integers, the counting numbers, are a subset of discrete numbers. Even if a variable is continuum valued conceptually, in practice it might be discretized. An example is time in a digital simulator. Whether the time in a simulation is discretized into 0.1 s increments, millisecond increments, or whole-second increments, the simulated time can only have discrete values. Whenever some variable is placed in cells or array elements, the interval is discretized. Other examples include spatial increments in solving a differential equation (even though distance may be continuum valued) or bin increments in creating histograms.
27.1
Introduction
27.2Optimization Solutions
27.3Convergence
27.4Takeaway
27.5Exercises
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