[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Chung Leong wrote: >> Isn't that an NP-complete problem or am I crazy? > > That makes it a more realistic challange, doesn't it? > > Suppose it was something simple, like calculating a > minimal spanning tree. Every program would produce the > same output. What kind of contest would that be?
I was thinking maybe you could use a genetic algorithm, where the fitness function would caluclate the amount of waste. I'm not very familar with how to implement this sort of thing, though. -Don -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list