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