You can use it for planning investment ... he introduced a method for solving the linear programming problem called the simplex method and turned that into a computer program, an algorithm ...

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the single most important use of computers—the biggest user of computer time in the entire world—was running the Simplex algorithm to solve linear programming problems. No large organization ...

About the same time, he invented the “simplex method,” an algorithm for solving linear programming ... started using Dantzig’s methods. “They started out with the simple problem of how ...