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Anyone have any idea how large Gosplan's* matrices were?

How about matrices used by RAF/AAF targeters for mincut purposes, eg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oil_campaign_of_World_War_II ?

* surprisingly, en.wikipedia has more information than ru.wikipedia, but neither even has a hint as to headcounts over the years, let alone more technical details.

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I have the book “planning in the user” somewhere packed away. I remember it speaking about the number of variables and size of the problem in it. Sorry I don’t remember the numbers off the top of my head.

Obviously it didn’t work out though.

The other book worth getting is “red plenty”.

Planning in the U.S.S.R Problems of theory and Organisation

It is available on annas archive. Along with other similar books (Search: "Planning in the USSR").

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