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The cutting-stock problem is the problem of filling an order at minimum cost for specified numbers of lengths of material to be cut from given stock lengths of given cost. When expressed as an integer ...

Integer linear programming can help find the answer to a variety of real-world problems. Now researchers have found a much faster way to do it.