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examples/notebook/contrib/broken_weights.ipynb

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broken_weights

<table align="left"> <td> <a href="https://colab.research.google.com/github/google/or-tools/blob/main/examples/notebook/contrib/broken_weights.ipynb">Run in Google Colab</a> </td> <td> <a href="https://github.com/google/or-tools/blob/main/examples/contrib/broken_weights.py">View source on GitHub</a> </td> </table>

First, you must install ortools package in this colab.

python
%pip install ortools

Broken weights problem in Google CP Solver.

From http://www.mathlesstraveled.com/?p=701 ''' Here's a fantastic problem I recently heard. Apparently it was first posed by Claude Gaspard Bachet de Meziriac in a book of arithmetic problems published in 1612, and can also be found in Heinrich Dorrie's 100 Great Problems of Elementary Mathematics.

  A merchant had a forty pound measuring weight that broke
  into four pieces as the result of a fall. When the pieces were
  subsequently weighed, it was found that the weight of each piece
  was a whole number of pounds and that the four pieces could be
  used to weigh every integral weight between 1 and 40 pounds. What
  were the weights of the pieces?

Note that since this was a 17th-century merchant, he of course used a balance scale to weigh things. So, for example, he could use a 1-pound weight and a 4-pound weight to weigh a 3-pound object, by placing the 3-pound object and 1-pound weight on one side of the scale, and the 4-pound weight on the other side. '''

Compare with the following problems:

This model was created by Hakan Kjellerstrand ([email protected]) Also see my other Google CP Solver models: http://www.hakank.org/google_or_tools/

python
import sys

from ortools.constraint_solver import pywrapcp


def main(m=40, n=4):

  # Create the solver.
  solver = pywrapcp.Solver('Broken weights')

  #
  # data
  #
  print('total weight (m):', m)
  print('number of pieces (n):', n)
  print()

  #
  # variables
  #
  weights = [solver.IntVar(1, m, 'weights[%i]' % j) for j in range(n)]
  x = {}
  for i in range(m):
    for j in range(n):
      x[i, j] = solver.IntVar(-1, 1, 'x[%i,%i]' % (i, j))
  x_flat = [x[i, j] for i in range(m) for j in range(n)]

  #
  # constraints
  #

  # symmetry breaking
  for j in range(1, n):
    solver.Add(weights[j - 1] < weights[j])

  solver.Add(solver.SumEquality(weights, m))

  # Check that all weights from 1 to 40 can be made.
  #
  # Since all weights can be on either side
  # of the side of the scale we allow either
  # -1, 0, or 1 or the weights, assuming that
  # -1 is the weights on the left and 1 is on the right.
  #
  for i in range(m):
    solver.Add(i + 1 == solver.Sum([weights[j] * x[i, j] for j in range(n)]))

  # objective
  objective = solver.Minimize(weights[n - 1], 1)

  #
  # search and result
  #
  db = solver.Phase(weights + x_flat, solver.CHOOSE_FIRST_UNBOUND,
                    solver.ASSIGN_MIN_VALUE)

  search_log = solver.SearchLog(1)

  solver.NewSearch(db, [objective])

  num_solutions = 0
  while solver.NextSolution():
    num_solutions += 1
    print('weights:   ', end=' ')
    for w in [weights[j].Value() for j in range(n)]:
      print('%3i ' % w, end=' ')
    print()
    print('-' * 30)
    for i in range(m):
      print('weight  %2i:' % (i + 1), end=' ')
      for j in range(n):
        print('%3i ' % x[i, j].Value(), end=' ')
      print()
    print()
  print()
  solver.EndSearch()

  print('num_solutions:', num_solutions)
  print('failures :', solver.Failures())
  print('branches :', solver.Branches())
  print('WallTime:', solver.WallTime(), 'ms')


m = 40
n = 4
if len(sys.argv) > 1:
  m = int(sys.argv[1])
if len(sys.argv) > 2:
  n = int(sys.argv[2])
main(m, n)