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Formula for distance travelled?
Given the coordinates of source of a missile, and those of the target both of which are on the surface of the Earth $(z=0)$ , I need to determine the total distance that the missile will need to ...
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How to determine maximum angles between vectors?
I'm attempting to distribute vectors with the same origin with a maximum angle of separation. Then if given a set of vectors, I want to determine how far from maximum separation they are. For ...
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Generating random linear programming problems
I've just finished writing a a linear programming problem solver which uses the simplex method. Now I would like to start optimizing my solver but before I can do this, I need a way of reliably ...
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Can this non-linear optimisation problem be converted to a linear?
I have to minimize the function: $F(x)$
$F(x) = \sum_{i=1}^{M}||x_{i+1} - x_i - K(\frac{x_{i+1} + x_i}{2})||^2 + ||x_1-c_1||^2 + ||x_N-c_2||^2$ , where $x$ is a vector of $N$ scalars, $c$ are ...
