RE: [PHP] Looking for help with a complex algorithm

Robert Cummings wrote: > On Tue, 2007-10-09 at 15:28 -0500, Jay Blanchard wrote: >> [snip] >> This *IS* the knapsack problem. Just because you specify date ranges >> to get your values and the value isn't a knapsack doesn't change the >> fact that it is the same problem :) I remember having fun with >> genetic algorithms and the knapsack problem back in University. >> [/snip] >> >> You're right save for the knapsack problem considered not only >> volume, but value as well. > > So imagine the value of all of your items is equal to it's size. > Voila, same problem. > Which means it surely been solved before: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knapsack_problem I've never heard of it either, but it sounds a lot like the travelling salesman problem? /Per Jessen, Zürich