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cwmma
on Sept 6, 2022
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The tyranny of the wagon equation
The diagram of the Quadruple donkey transfer reminds me of the fueling diagram for the Black Buck raids during the Falklands War
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sparkplug94
on Sept 6, 2022
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That's actually shockingly similar. I'm sure someone has studied the mathematics of fuel transport in much greater detail -- I wonder if it's a simple problem to optimize or something closer to the traveling salesman problem
cwmma
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pretty sure it's a very simple problem, brutally simple even.
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