Exploring a greedy solution to the stock cutting problem
Creating a quick estimation to the stock cutting solution
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7 min readAug 3, 2023
Contents
- Motivation of the stock cutting problem
- Quick overview of NP-Hard problems
- Encoding the stock cutting problem into Python
- The greedy algorithm
- Comparison to exhaustive search in low n-space
- Comparison to random search in higher n-space
- Conclusion