It's an arbitrary grouping so that the sum of file sizes in each group is
nearly equal between groups.   To roughly approximate a distribution, you
could use something like this:
szs=. (+/16 4000?@$400) + (+/8 4000?@$2e3) + (+/4 4000?@$5e5) + 4000?@$1e6
On May 20, 2016 10:48 AM, "David Porter" <dpor...@cissoid.net> wrote:

> Groups based on what?
>
> Dave
> On 5/20/2016 10:11 AM, Devon McCormick wrote:
>
>> I have a few thousand photos I want to put into a small number of groups
>> as
>> equally-sized as possible.  It looks like a knapsack problem but I only
>> need to get within some tolerant equality.
>>
>> Has anyone done something like this?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Devon
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