[GAP Forum] Two questions

[Kasper Andersen]

Dear Forum and dear Gabor,

For linear programming I can strongly recommend Michel Berkelaar's lpsolve 
program.

best, Kasper Andersen


On Tue, 27 Nov 2007, Gábor Nagy wrote:

> Dear Forum,
>
> I have the following questions.
>
> 1) Is there a way to access the character table of the general symmetric 
> group? It seems to me that the tables are only stored up to n=18.
>
> 2) I would like to use linear programming in GAP. Before I start implementing 
> the simplex method in GAP, I would like to ask if anybody has done it before? 
> This could save me some time. :-)
>
> Actually, I already made a very simple GAP interface to Maxima to solve 
> linear programs. If somebody is interested, he/she can contact me. 
> Unfortunately, I am not impressed by Maxima's speed.
>
> BTW, I am interested in any kind of implementation of fast exact rational 
> simplex method.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Gabor
>
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