Help choosing FET version and something else.

Started by josemgs, May 29, 2020, 10:25:35 AM

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Liviu Lalescu

That's good!

I forgot to tell you that you also have the constraint "activities min simultaneous in selected time slots", select "Allow empty slots", and it might be useful.

josemgs

Quote from: Liviu Lalescu on June 06, 2020, 11:03:14 AM
That's good!

I forgot to tell you that you also have the constraint "activities min simultaneous in selected time slots", select "Allow empty slots", and it might be useful.


Yes, I realized about that constraint yesterday. It is also useful in case you don't have groups (FET days in our case) with same number of students.
I'll tell you when testing with a real case. Probably I will have some questions...

Thanks a lot for your fantastic work ( I can not expected less from a person cited in one of Knuth's book)

Note:
I don't know if it is of interest for other fet users. This morning I managed to compile fet-josemgs5 under Linux Mint LMDE4 Debbie successfully, cleanly and fastly.

Liviu Lalescu

You are welcome! Thank you for your nice words!  :)

Yes, it should compile OK on any platform Qt supports.

Liviu Lalescu

I want to ask you how did you find that I am cited in Knuth's books? I wrote on my CV only that I have some reward checks. Are you reading the books yourself, also? Also, I think I am in two books, vol. 2 (with a minor improvement to the old random number generator used in FET) and vol. 4A with a simpler solution to a simple problem.

josemgs

Yes, I have used "The Art of Computer Programming" in the past, but I found you were cited there here https://lalescu.ro/liviu/fet/doc/en/other-algorithms-references.html, and a search in google about this topic. I didn't know you had also contributed in other problems. Congratulations!!
And remember that a problem always seems to be very simple when you find a solution!
Or as Feynman liked to say, "mathematicians can prove only trivial theorems, because every theorem that's proved is trivial".

Liviu Lalescu