On the Application of Inequalities Containing Sums of Minimum/Maximum of Numbers
Retail inventory management is a crucial part of many businesses due to the high profit associated with it as well as the uncertainty around it, especially for industries with short production cycles and a complex supply chain.Proper management ofretail inventories can lead to decreased inventory costs, prevent spoilage and obsoles- cence, and improve customer satisfaction, all of which lead to increased profits for the company.Inthispaper,wefirstproposeextendingawell-knowninequalityandtry to generalize it to other conditions and similar inequalities.The inequality involves multiple variables and how the maximum/minimum values of a subset of the numbers compare to the maximum/minimum values of the whole set of numbers.Our main contribution is applying such inequality in inventory management to help estimate the total cost of inventory management, which would allow us to determine the shutdown pointforaspecificcompanyusingthegeneralizationsoftheinequality.Lastly,weshow thatourestimatesarereasonableandproposesomefutureareaswheremoreworkcan be done.
任意進位制下計數問題的公式解
對於任意正整數m和大於1的正整數p,將集合{m,m+1,...,pm-1}中的每一個元素用p進位制表示。令h為介在1到p-1的正整數,將上述集合在p進位制下有i個h的元素個數記為fh,i(m,p)。本文引進一個創新的想法,讓函數 fh,i(m,p)公式解的推導變得可行且簡單。 再者,當 p=2 時,令 fi(m)= f1,i(m,2),由公式解可以推得對怎樣的正整數n,原像集合the preimage fi-1({n})之元素個數為1。