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This is great.

Since you've asked about bugs, I tried pushing the limits and found the following:

    A1: 100          B1: =100-A1
    A2: =A1*(100-A1)
    A3: =A1*B1
A2 can be successfully set to anything reasonable (up to 2500)

However, setting A3 to exactly 100 doesn't work, even though setting it to 101 or 99 (or even 100.000001) does work.

Another limit:

    A1: 100          B1: 100
    A2: =A1+B1
    A3: =A1*B1
    A4: =abs(A2-100) + abs(A3-100)
Setting A4 to zero (or anything below 80) doesn't work. This doesn't improve if the constants in the A4 formula are moved a short distance away from 100.

In case you can't tell from that last example, I think being able to fix the intended values of multiple outputs simultaneously would be interesting. If you were to give more details about the solver's internals, I'd be keen to hear them.



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