Like in this picture:
I understand the first part, but what does the “subject to” part mean?
Help? Couldn’t find anything on google searching “sigma subject to”.
In: 1
You are trying to minimize a value “subject to a constraint” / “while being constrained” / “only while this thing is true” . In this example, you are not necessarily trying to find the lowest x in a set; you are trying to find the lowest x that *also* has the property that the x times its corresponding c = S.
If the x’s were [1, 2, 3, 4], the c’s were [1, 2, 4, 3], and S = 12, then the minimum value of x subject to the constraint would be x = 3. x = 1 and x = 2 are smaller x’s, but they don’t satisfy the constraint. x = 4 satisfies the constraint, but it’s not less than x = 3.
Latest Answers