From: Robert Retzbach <rretzbach@...>
Date: 2006-01-14T00:26:41+09:00
Subject: Re: [QUIZ] Packing (#62)

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>by Ilmari Heikkinen
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>You're moving. And that means a whole bunch of boxes need to be moved from the
>old place to the new one. You've got a pickup truck to do the moving, but it can
>only hold one vertical level of boxes. The boxes need to be padded with one unit
>worth of foam on each side that's facing another box.
>
>The goal is to minimize the amount of trips you have to do to move all the
>boxes.
>
>The solver program should take two lines of input, first one containing the
>trunk dimensions (e.g. 10x20), and the second one containing all the box
>dimensions, separated by spaces (e.g. 1x3 4x8 3x7 9x4 10x14.)
>
>The output of the solver should be ascii art of the trunk packings, with each
>trunkful separated by an empty line.
>
>	Example:
>	$ ruby solver.rb
>	10x20
>	1x3 4x8 3x7 9x4 10x14
>	
>	**************.***.. 
>	**************......
>	**************.****.
>	**************.****.
>	**************.****.
>	**************.****.
>	**************.****.
>	**************.****.
>	**************.****.
>	**************.****.
>	
>	*********...........
>	*********...........
>	*********...........
>	*********...........
>	....................
>	*******.............
>	*******.............
>	*******.............
>	....................
>	....................
>
>
>  
>
Hello,
this is a interesting quiz, but I am still in the middle to understand 
the last! :D

However... I can't access ruby62.html. It's always rewritten to ruby26.html.
Maybe I stand alone with this problem.

MfG
Retze