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Subject: [Freeciv-Dev] Re: (PR#6918) GUI for CMA should allow zero weights
From: "Benoit Hudson" <bh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2003 15:43:01 -0800
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<URL: http://rt.freeciv.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=6918 >

On Sat, Nov 22, 2003 at 07:50:21PM +0100, Raimar Falke wrote:
> You can do all this without touching the core. You can allow 0 in the
> frontend and multiply all weights by 1000 before you pass them to the
> core.

What does multiplying the weights achieve?  The optimization problem is
scale-invariant.  The current code uses a lot of short and char values
so at first glance multiplying by 1k might actually be a problem (one
easily remedied of course).

        -- Benoît
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