| Symbol | Definition |
| i | Index for all items |
| n | Number of all items |
| k | Index for each unique item |
|
| Demand for unique item i |
| D | Total number of items (or total demand) |
|
| Average gap between units of each unique item |
|
| Actual gap between positions k + 1 and k for item i |
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| The number of units of i produced through the kth sequence position |