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xpress.And

xpress.And


Purpose

Returns a logical AND of two or more binary variables or expressions.


Synopsis
xpress.And(variables)
Argument
variables 
A list/array of binary variables or binary expressions
Example
The following example shows how to use and to model various logical constraints:
N = 10

x = xp.vars(N, vartype=xp.binary)  # Creates N binary variables

c = [1, 4, 7, 3, 5, 7, 8, 4, 4, 9]

p = xp.problem(x)  # Creates a problem with x, y

# Sets a linear objective
p.setObjective (xp.Sum(c[i] * x[i] for i in range(N))

# Linear constraint
p.addConstraint (xp.Sum(x) <= 6)

# Constrains the first x variable to be the conjunction of all other x's
p.addConstraint (x[0] == xp.And(x[1:]))

# Forces the logical AND between some logical expressions to
# be zero, i.e., at least one of them must be zero

p.addConstraint (xp.And([x[1] | x[4], x[2] | x[1], x[3] | x[6]]) == 0)
Further information
1. For AND functions, all variables and expressions must be binary; an error will be generated otherwise.
2. A function call xpress.And(x1,x2,...,xk) is equivalent to x1 and (x2 and (x3 and ... xk))...).
3. Note that since x1, x2, ..., xk, are binary variables, xpress.And(x1,x2,...,xk) is equivalent to xpress.min(x1,x2,...,xk).
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