JWally
commented
5 years ago There's no limit on the number of variables used in the results. I think that the problem you're giving it just happens to have an optimal solution with the three variables it's returning.
Quick and dirty solution to your problem, you could solve in multiple stages:
1.) Solve the problem
2.) If the count of results is < {{x}}, add max constraints on the variables returned. For example, your solution returned:
{ 'omlet': 2.93935441, 'banana': 28.45265985, 'baked salmon': 4.50321154 }try adding to the existing model something like:
{
"constraints": {
...
"omlet": {"max": 2.9},
"banana": {"max": 28},
"baked salmon": {"max": 4.3}
}
}
or whatever.
At the moment, I'm unfortunately not clever enough to know how to tell it to return a minimum of {{x}} variables in the solution.
This help?
hadialaddin
Does LP Solver limit the number of resulting variables to 3? I give it 500 variables and it always tries to generate a max of 3 variables to fit the constraints, by increasing the quantities. This makes it give me something like:
{ 'omlet': 2.93935441, 'banana': 28.45265985, 'baked salmon': 4.50321154 }
Any way I can make it generate 3-6 variables as results instead of 3 only to avoid getting a very high number for one variable (such as 'banana' above?)