“If you do it in a clever way, you can solve them in an acceptable amount of time, even though theoretically it takes an exponential amount of time.”

Tim Varelmann · Software Engineering Radio - the podcast for professional software developers · Tim Varelmann on Mathematical Optimization for Software Engineers

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stated that despite being NP-hard, real-world optimization problems can be solved in acceptable time with clever formulation and modern solvers

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