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US Army Corps of Engineers Deploys Complex Math along the Columbia River

Grand Coulee Dam (flickr.com/photos/79666107@N00/)

Most people don’t think about the complexity behind the electricity that’s supplied to their home or work. We flick a switch. The lights go on or off. Simple, right? Well, not quite. As covered in the November 7th Forbes article “The High-Stakes Math Behind the West’s Greatest River”, there’s an enormous amount of data and complex calculations that go into …

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