A nice anecdote about mathematicians trying to solve this problem: > Again the diet seemed to be plausible except for calling for the consumption of 200 bullio

A nice anecdote about mathematicians trying to solve this problem: > Again the diet seemed to be plausible except for calling for the consumption of 200 bullion cubes per day. https://web.archive.org/web/20160411141356/https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/5317066/1990-dantzig-dietproblem.pdf https://web.archive.org/web/20160411141356/https://dl.dropbo...