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His first publication, a 1943 paper entitled 'On the optimal use of winds for flight planning', indicated a preoccupation with optimality — the sine qua non for his subsequent intellectual vision.

From Nature • Mar. 28, 2017

Apart from perishable produce, I for one do not care about optimality.

From Nature • Mar. 7, 2017

But it can be hard for the individual driver to appreciate the subtle beauty of system optimality.

From Slate • Oct. 12, 2011

On the other hand, this is an incomplete sense of optimality.

From Definition & Reality in the General Theory of Political Economy by Colignatus, Thomas

Routing Issues Along with sheer mass of the data necessary to route packets to a large number of networks, there are many problems with the updating, stability, and optimality of the routing algorithms.

From Hitchhiker's Guide to the Internet by Krol, Ed