Stationary Points

Lagrange Multipliers

This is a lot like college calculus.
In a Shannon  channel these stationary poits generate symbol events from the set i.

In an inventory system, these are in and out warehouses, in the delivery net. Lagrange comes in because LaGrange talks about balance points in flow, points where an observer sees inventory sacle linearly by, pre-ordering goods a bit, or pushing some out the door faster than plan. That is the definition of a well positioned warehouse. Inventory is not fractional, so we get finite precision, we applied out uncertainty. Then we apply an inventory exclusion rules, and get optimum cargo sizes and rates.