Re: [Boston.pm] $10K programming contest in Boston

2014-09-29 Thread David Cantrell
On Sat, Sep 27, 2014 at 04:59:55PM -0400, Tom Metro wrote: Local company Vistaprint is running a programming contests. The objective is to determine what is the smallest shipping box that can contain a given collection of Vistaprint products. Total volume of the products + epsilon. Oh, you

Re: [Boston.pm] $10K programming contest in Boston

2014-09-29 Thread Ben Tilly
I like the line where they say, You might recognize this problem as intractable in general. Yup, bin packing problem. Standard example of an np-complete problem. On Sat, Sep 27, 2014 at 1:59 PM, Tom Metro tmetro+boston...@gmail.com wrote: Local company Vistaprint is running a programming