This is awesome .. I had no idea how to get started on building such an algo in perl. Thankyou so much for your help... I think you nailed the problem as far as I can see. To answer some of your questions:

Right now there is a capacity set at 82,080 for each machine ( this is a estimation we are sticking with for now).

There are a limit of nozzles per machine would be 25 - thats a great question I should have thought to put that earlier.

My next questions are how can I download and learn from the code you have made to do this? Was it done in perl? Super excited to take a look. I will have to build a loop around what youve done so I can do it iteravely for a six month period ( day by day), but I think I can handle that. I'll definitely be making a large donation =)

In reply to Re^7: Tricky chemicals optimization problem by Anonymous Monk
in thread Tricky chemicals optimization problem by Anonymous Monk

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