New Scientist takes a look at the simplex algorithm, now over 60 years old, which is used by everyone from fruit suppliers to banks to make decisions about non-linear problems with so many ...

In this paper, a modification of the bisection simplex method is made for more general purpose use. Organized in an alternative simpler form, the modified version exploits information of the optimal ...

Its services are called upon thousands of times a second to ensure the world's business runs smoothly – but are its mathematics as dependable as we thought?