the-real-numbers:model-theory: anarchist-bakery: buzzfeed: This Restaurant Has The Wildest Wing Pric
the-real-numbers:model-theory: anarchist-bakery: buzzfeed: This Restaurant Has The Wildest Wing Pricing Structure And People Are Doing Math To Try To Figure It Out THEY FUCKING PLOTTED IT IN MATLAB I’M CRYING So asymptotically you’re going to want to get multiples of the most efficient menu option, whatever that is, so I suspect that you could hard compute all the most efficient ways of purchasing small numbers of wings (fewer than, say 200+[most efficient amount]) then do the wing orders by modding out multiples of the efficient amount.The small number of wings problem seems interesting (to me at least), and could possibly be done by a computation involving upward substitution, where we fill out a chart of all wing nummers slowly by consulting back at the table. May not be very efficient, though, so I’d need to consult someone who researches optimisation. Last time this thing made the rounds, I think I used a knapsack algorithm to find the optimal options for any number of wings. -- source link