[quiz] Anybody there?

Ryan Davis ryan at acceleration.net
Thu Jul 12 14:41:43 UTC 2007


I submitted it half-jokingly, but I figured the dataset was small enough
that it'd still complete, and the comic makes it a little more fun to
dig into.  It's also a nice example of NP-complete and the knapsack
problem for those not familiar.

Thanks,

Ryan Davis
Acceleration.net
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Larry Clapp wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 11, 2007 at 04:07:53PM -0500, Ivan Salazar wrote:
>   
>> OK, was this quiz a joke then? u_u
>>     
>
> Well, I didn't propose it.  I don't know what the guy who suggested it
> had in mind, one way or the other.
>
> I initially thought it would be a hard problem (or at least take a
> long time to solve), thus my cautionary remarks, but the solution
> posted here earlier took ~0.001 seconds on my machine.  I guess this
> dataset was sufficiently small.  :)
>
> -- L
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