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Thanks a lot! You know, I'm going to have very similar type problems for prolly the rest of my career. Is there any type of math that can be applied to this problem? I mean, matrices sure come in handy at times, but there's really a lot more to it

you can have as many 240" bars as you want. Infact, what I really need is 241 sets of the 5 shorter lengths.

Hello everyone. I'd like to thank everyone for their help in advance. Ok, here we go. I've got bars of known length (240"). And, I've got to cut equal numbers of 5 different length pieces. The lengths are: 72.16", 71.64", 68.94", 45.46", and 44.13" The whole point is to minimize the...