Sierra Club version

It is now 2005 and you dedicate a lot of your time and effort to the Sierra Club. You are strongly opposed to opening the Arctic Wildlife Refuge to exploitation by greedy oil companies.

You have discovered that a rogue oil company, in defiance of current laws and regulations, is going to attempt some preliminary exploration drilling in the refuge. Furthermore, you can determine the exact location of their explorations if only you could find the values of x, y and z (between 0 and 10, inclusive) that maximized the function

You do not have to find the values for x, y and z exactly, but you do need to find them to within 0.01, so that you can get close enough to the drilling site to disrupt their nefarious plans.

Some old code is available that may be modified to solve this problem. To run the code as it is, you will also need three more files.


Bill Goodwine
Last modified: Wed Apr 4 16:26:49 EST 2001