Problem 586. All Humans are Created Equal - Pareto Equality

Created by Muthu Annamalai

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@bmtran (Bryant Tran) on 14 Apr 2012

I don't really understand the mechanics of this. could you link to an article or something where I could read more about it?

Muthu Annamalai on 15 Apr 2012

I may have poorly written the problem statement; the general idea is to find optimal candidates for the problem

arg max F(x,y,z)

where many {x,y,z} pairs maximize F.

Please see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pareto_optimal. HTH.

Nikolaos Nikolaou on 30 May 2020

test suit is broken plz fix

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