On 3/3/06, adak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> It COULD BE a knapsack problem, but it SHOULDN'T be a knapsack problem.
> Not with a full database!

It is exactly a knapsack problem and nothing else. Did you read the
problem carefully like I told you to do? If you still think a database
would help, why not show us a little SQL code that will solve the
problem easier than dynamic programming on the knapsack problem?

> Databases are organized so that this kind of problem, which is common,
> gets chewed up and spit out, with ALL the possible answers (no misses),
> and no combinatorial nightmare, either.

"ALL the possible answers" could be in the trillions for this problem.

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