Having been in the US Army I am well aware of Dantzig's contributions towards efficiency of resources back in WWII. He was a very smart man when it came to numbers, that is a certainty. Nicely summarized and proven there, I'm just glad I don't do that for a living! lol
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Hi thebighigg, I didn't know you were in the US Army, that's something that makes you very proud. There's a crucial fact that explains Dantzig's natural genius. You may know it, but I'm writing it here anyway to remember him.
In 1939, George Dantzig was still a student and one day he was late for class. The professor had just written two statistics problems on the blackboard that were considered unsolvable at the time. Dantzig, not having heard the introduction, thought they were homework exercises. He solved them and gave them to the professor. Dantzig had solved two open-ended statistics problems, unaware that they were famously impossible.
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