The Water Puzzle and Marginal Utility Optimization

2024/04/13 by Yaakov Malinovsky, Malinovsky, Yaakov, Isaac M. Sonin +1
Engineering · #Water resources management and optimization

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2404.10015

Abstract

We present a variation of the water puzzle, which is related to a simple model of marginal utility. The problem has an intriguing solution and can be extended in several directions.

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