@Carl Love 
 

@acer Thanks. And Carl. I'm now trying to multiply the kWh/d by $0.27265/kWh to get 4.67 USD/d.

this didn't work 4.9*Unit(kW)*3.5*Unit(h/day)*0.27265*Unit(USD/kWh)

but this did....

restart:Units[AddSystem]( NewSI, Units[GetSystem](SI), USD/d );
 Units[UseSystem]( NewSI ); 
combine( 4.9*Unit(kW)*3.5*Unit(h/day)*0.27265*Unit(USD/kWh), units );
 

@Carl Love 

I would be interested to see your derivation of the formula.

Given

A= the number of rats born in a liter
G= the "gestation" period that a newborn rat must wait before giving birth
I= the interval between births

If I supply G and I, i can get the series in terms of A, 

[NB the initial pair of rats produce A offspring immediatly]. 

restart:local I:
G:=120;I:=40;
  sol3:=rsolve({U(n)=U(n-G/I+2)+A/2*U(n-G/I), U(0) = 2+A, U(1) = 2+2*A, U(2) = 2+3*A}, {U}, 'makeproc'):
  seq( sol3(j), j=0..5);
 

What I really wanted was a closed form solution of the populations as a function of day given the symbolic parameters A,G,I

@tomleslie 

thanks for your interest.

I tried this 

a:=unapply(rsolve({{U(n)=U(n-1)+3*U(n-3), U(0) = 6, U(1) = 6, U(2) = 6, U(3)=24}}, U(n)), n);  # General formula
seq(expand(a(n)), n=0..9);  # The first 10 terms
 

didnt work. Then I tried 

restart;
  sol1:=rsolve({U(n)=U(n-1)+3*U(n-3), U(0) = 6, U(1) = 6, U(2) = 6}, {U}, 'makeproc'):
  L:=[seq( sol1(j), j=0..9)];
 g:= gfun[guessgf](L,n, [ogf]); 
convert(g[1],FPS,n);
 

but, no cigar

@Joe Riel I found this in my Maple 7 folder. I suspect it was written by you.

alphametics.mws

@vv 

1. I don't know where this is. I'm running M2017. I did right click in the help page "copy examples".

2. I don't think i am. I seem to remember it was a bugger to setup.

@Joe Riel on my machine

LibraryTools:-FindLibrary(Iterator);

"C:\Program Files\Maple 2017\lib\maple.mla"

@vv i get error

alphametic("maple*sim = modelica + model")
Error, (in Iterator:-Permute) invalid input: too many and/or wrong type of arguments passed to Permute:-ModuleCopy; first unused argument is accept = pred
 

@Kitonum Thanks Yuri

@Kitonum I am having trouble visualising what the OP is describing.

Is it possible to produce a 3d plot or animation of the slicing and the shape of the objects produced as a function of R and the planes [x=+/-R,y=+/-R,z=+/-R]

@Carl Love 

@Carl Love Thanks. I made the change to the ELO procedure, and it works for that part.

But not for the Update procedure. It doesnt like my input.  Games:= [[Tom_C, David_J,D ],[David_J, Tom_C ]]:

ELO_draw2.mw

Provide your prof a proof that 42 is the answer to life, the universe and everything.

@tomleslie 

@tomleslie Thankyou.

This leads onto a further question which I hope you can help with. I don't really want to convert to csv.....

Feeder4.xls

import2.mw