A Unified Computer Program Solving Li and Sun’s Problem 14.5 but with 5000 Unknowns instead of 100 Unknowns

Jsun Yui Wong

Similar to the computer programs of the preceding papers, the computer program below seeks to solve Li and Sun’s Problem 14.5, [10, p. 416], but with 5000 unknowns instead of 100 unknowns. Specifically the computer program below tries to minimize the following:

5000                             5000
SIGMA    (X(i))^4 + [ SIGMA    X(i) ]^2
i=1                                  i=1

subject to -5<=X(i)=5, X(i) integer, i=1, 2, 3,…, 5000. See line 111 through line 117 and line 171 through line 177.

One notes line 85 and line 175, which are 85 LB=-FIX(RND*6) and 175 IF X(J44)<LB THEN X(J44 )=A(J44 ).

0 REM DEFDBL A-Z
1 DEFINT J,K,B,X
2 DIM A(10000),X(10000)
81 FOR JJJJ=-32000 TO 32000
85 LB=-FIX(RND*6)
89 RANDOMIZE JJJJ
90 M=-1.5D+38
111 FOR J44=1 TO 5000
114 A(J44)=LB+FIX(RND*6)
117 NEXT J44
128 FOR I=1 TO 32000
129 FOR KKQQ=1 TO 5000
130 X(KKQQ)=A(KKQQ)
131 NEXT KKQQ
139 FOR IPP=1 TO FIX(1+.3)
140 B=1+FIX(RND*5000)
143 GOTO 167
144 REM GOTO 168
145 IF RND<.5 THEN 150 ELSE 167
150 R=(1-RND*2)*A(B)
160 X(B)=(A(B) +RND^3*R)
162 GOTO 168
163 IF RND<.5 THEN X(B)=(A(B)-.001) ELSE X(B)=(A(B) +.001 )
165 GOTO 168
167 IF RND<.5 THEN X(B)=CINT(A(B)-1) ELSE X(B)=CINT(A(B) +1 )
168 REM IF A(B)=0 THEN X(B)=1 ELSE X(B)=0
169 NEXT IPP
171 FOR J44=1 TO 5000
174 IF X(J44)>5 THEN X(J44 )=A(J44 )
175 IF X(J44)<LB THEN X(J44 )=A(J44 )
177 NEXT J44
401 SONE=0
402 FOR J44=1 TO 5000
411 SONE=SONE+ (X(J44))^4
421 NEXT J44
501 STWO=0
502 FOR J44=1 TO 5000
511 STWO=STWO+ (X(J44))
521 NEXT J44
688 PD1=-SONE-STWO^2
1111 IF PD1<=M THEN 1670
1452 M=PD1
1454 FOR KLX=1 TO 5000
1455 A(KLX)=X(KLX)
1456 NEXT KLX
1557 GOTO 128
1670 NEXT I
1889 REM IF M<-2 THEN 1999
1923 PRINT A(1),A(2),A(3),A(4),A(5)
1934 PRINT A(96),A(97),A(98),A(99),A(100)
1935 PRINT A(996),A(997),A(998),A(999),A(1000)
1936 PRINT A(4996),A(4997),A(4998),A(4999),A(5000)
1939 PRINT M,JJJJ,LB
1999 NEXT JJJJ

This BASIC computer program was run via basica/D of Microsoft’s GW-BASIC 3.11 interpreter for DOS. See the BASIC manual [11]. Copied by hand from the screen, the computer program’s complete output through JJJJ=-32000 is shown below:

0 0 0 0 0
0 0 0 0 0
0 0 0 0 0
0 0 0 0 0
0      -32000     0

Above there is no rounding by hand.

M=0 is optimal; see Li and Sun [10, p. 416].

Of the 5000 A’s, only the 20 A’s of line 1923 through line 1936 are shown above.

On a personal computer with a Pentium Dual-Core CPU E5200 @2.50GHz, 2.50 GHz, 960 MB of RAM, and the IBM basica/D interpreter, version GW BASIC 3.11, the wall-clock time for obtaining the output through JJJJ=-32000 was one hour and fifteen minutes.

Acknowledgment

I would like to acknowledge the encouragement of Roberta Clark and Tom Clark.

Acknowledgment

I would like to acknowledge the encouragement of Roberta Clark and Tom Clark.

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