Maximum Packing

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Enter the following info and click on the 'Calculate' Button.
Enter Lot Size
Enter Data
Results

Instructions

This is a program to find the best packing strategy so that the least number of lots are used.

Enter Lot Size
this is to enter the size of a lot (integer value only), e.g. 10.
Enter Data
Enter the data string consisting of integers separated by spacing, e.g. "5 3 7 4 1 6". Each of the number has to be positive and less than the lot size.
Calculate (button)
Click on this button to begin computation.
Results
Here are the results of the computation. The text here is program generated. If this field shows "..." and there is no error messages, then the program is still running.
(Remarks)
Look here for errors encountered during computations.

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Applications

  1. Packing items into boxes with equal weight limits, e.g. postage parcels.each parcel.
  2. Cutting off retail pieces of wood from timbers of standard lengths.
  3. Arranging programs of various time durations into standard time slots.
  4. Packing PC files into diskettes of fixed size (without slitting files nor zipping them).
  5. Packing database temp tables into swap pages.

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