From: Belorion <belorion@...>
Date: 2005-06-30T06:46:38+09:00
Subject: Re: Programmers Contest: Fit pictures on a page

> Or is it possibly, what's the minimum number of (uniformly
> dimensioned?) boundries required to FIT the n shapes?  THIS sort of
> problem is one I come across regularly in woodworking; how do I
> minimize the number of sheets of plywood (etc.) needed to cut out all
> the pieces of a given construction?

I *think* that is probably what they were trying to get at.  Lets say
you have 50 pictures of varying sizes.  The problem then is to try to
minimize the number of pages that are needed to print all 50 pictures.