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Amazon Puzzles Over the Perfect Fit–in Boxes (wsj.com)
3 points by Vannatter on Dec 20, 2017 | hide | past | favorite | 1 comment


Ah, a very real packing problem. [0] The difficulty really skyrockets when it gets recursively complex for orders full of knapsacks [1] But the really dangerous orders come at the beginning of each school year, when students flock to amazon and purchases both knapsacks and textbooks about the knapsack problem.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Packing_problems

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knapsack_problem




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