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A 25% tariff on a free book costs nothing!

  • 1.  A 25% tariff on a free book costs nothing!

    Posted 02-01-2025 18:22

    U.S. President Trump today imposed a 25% tariff on most things imported to the USA from Canada. However, my book on Decision Modeling has been, and will continue to be, a free pdf download, hence $0.00 + 25%($0.00) = $0.00. Version 3.6.2 is available for free pdf download from: https://linney.mun.ca/pages/view.php?ref=36808.

    This book covers the modeling of linear and integer programming, sensitivity analysis, goal and non-linear programming, and decision analysis. Problem solutions are obtained using both LINGO and the Excel Solver. The use of LINGO is in scalar mode, which avoids the use of sets, thereby making things easier for the intended audience of business students doing a survey course on optimization.

    Even if you are teaching an OR course which overlaps only part of the coverage of this pdf, you might wish to include it in a reading list. The solutions to the end-of-chapter problems, made as ten pdf files totalling 369 pages, can be requested by faculty members by contacting me at dtulett@mun.ca using an academic email address.

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    David M. Tulett, PhD
    Retired from the
    Faculty of Business Administration
    Memorial University
    St. John's, NL, Canada, A1B 3X5
    dtulett@mun.ca
    “... read, mark, learn, and inwardly digest ...”

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