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    I am wondering if scientists or engineers have any need for the
following computer program. Suppose you wanted to figure out what
distribution of point sources of some force (electric, magnetic,
whatever) produce a field of a particular geometry. You would draw the
field configuration that you wanted, give it to the program, and the
program would tell you where (and how strong) the point sources needed
to be in order to produce a field of that shape. This would work for
any force type, not just the square-of-distance type of gravity and
electromagnetic - you could enter the description of the force's
activity with distance, so the program would be general in that sense.
So, do engineers or physicists ever do this sort of thing? Would there
be any use for such a program? Please reply to
mlevin@husc8.harvard.edu.

Mike Levin