This paper develops a formulation of the one-dimensional trim problem when there is a fixed charge associated with using a cutting pattern. The purpose of the fixed charge is to limit the number of ...

Many years ago, when my wife and I first made a home together with three children by a prior marriage, we encountered a problem. The kids complained that I was taking too much time in the shower in ...

Python, for all its power and popularity, has long lacked a form of flow control found in other languages—a way to take a value and match it elegantly against one of a number of possible conditions.