Edit: Hmm....may be it wasn't that funny, anyway, I have taken some of the text (that was supposed to be funny, but most people did not get and left a few in...)

For our project, one of the tasks was to come up with an OR story. Me and Vikas we came up with this: :) ... in a light note (hope you find it funny...2 tough critics have said its ok...lol...it has some implied Systems references)

A Utopian vehicle manufacturing company realized that the electricity bill for the year was really high. After a study, they found out that one of the areas of concern was the lighting in the parking space. The parking space required lighting at night since the plant operated 24 hrs a day for weekdays and sometimes weekends. Therefore, the head of the finance consulted the head engineer, also known as the "Big C", about this problem, in the "meeting of the heads" (which shall be remembered for generations to come). After consulting, the Engineer inspected the parking lot at night to check how much flux was being generated by the lights at night. After inspecting, the Engineer, who is a Systems Design Engineer (from the legendary class of '77), remembered that he learnt about a method of Optimization in his third year of Engineering (which unknown to him he will teach in 31 years). The Engineer thinks that if he can minimize the lighting flux while maintaining levels of visibility (you got to be able to see you know!) for the three parking lights, then he can probably apply that to the entire parking lot to minimize the bill.

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