[Clp] Finding volume of feasible region

[Craig Schmidt]

You question is probably a bit off topic for this list. 

A google search on "volume of a polytope" should be what you're looking for.  There are number of specialized codes to compute this.  

Here is more info...
http://mathoverflow.net/questions/979/algorithm-for-finding-the-volume-of-a-convex-polytope

-Craig

On Aug 17, 2010, at 9:39 AM, Pete Janes wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> Does anyone know a way to find the volume enclosed by a set of linear inequalities?
> Or in other words the area of the feasible region. I am thinking of quickly implementing a 
> monte-carlo based procedure to find out, but is there a more elegant approach?
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Pete
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