7 Sep
2008
7 Sep
'08
1:01 p.m.
On Sun, 7 Sep 2008, Dan Asimov wrote:
Of course
x + yz = (x + y)(x + z)
is not true in general for (x,y,z) in R^3.
[...] That was 17 days ago. So as Gertrude Stein is reputed to have said, "What is the question?"
You asked if there was an intuitive explanation as to why the satisficing set is 1 = x + y + z.