Timeline for How to tell Solve[] to satisfy as many constraints as it can?

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Mar 13, 2016 at 9:35	comment	added	unlikely		@Mehrdad As you can see `NMinimize` handle some nonlinear constraint. And the example given can be expressed as linear. You can combine this approach with `Solve` and a search on binary trees or, more simply, with a full search to get what you want.
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Mar 13, 2016 at 9:24	comment	added	user541686		Thanks but they're definitely nonlinear... even the example I gave isn't linear.
Mar 13, 2016 at 8:57	history	answered	unlikely	CC BY-SA 3.0