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Re:Are you up to the challenge? Dropbox wants to know by Keyframe on Tuesday September 14, 2010 @03:44PM (#1691992)
That is an NP-hard problem. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bin_packing_problem
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Re:Are you up to the challenge? Dropbox wants to know by kiuyhjk on Tuesday September 14, 2010 @04:19PM (#1692117)
The optimal solution then is to get an infinite number of people on the internet to solve it for you for free!
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Re:Are you up to the challenge? Dropbox wants to know by terraflop on Wednesday September 15, 2010 @06:40AM (#1693843)
Its an np-hard problem! Definitiv! And this is exactly what i thought!
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