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aghilmortlast Saturday at 1:52 AM1 replyview on HN

interesting. like Excel Solver? or OpenSolver, Gurobi, other optimizers? or different objective?


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fouronnes3last Saturday at 7:16 AM

Never used any of those, so I don't know! I'd be curious to read a comparison from anyone who knows about them.

I think what's pretty unique about the bidicalc solver that I made is that it does not depend on the previous input values to update backwards. It's truly solving the root finding problem. The advantage is that there are never any "stuck in a local optimum" problems with the solver. So you can solve difficult problems like polynomials, etc.