Abstract
A cashier has a number of coins of different denominatmns at his disposal and wishes to make a selection, using the least number of corns, to meet a g~ven total The solution given here employs dynamic programming Suggestions are made which reduce the volume of computation re- quired m handling the recurmve equatmns The method can be apphed to the one-dimensional cargo- loading and stock-cutting problem, and ~t can be extended to the two-dimensional problem.

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