http://cgm.cs.mcgill.ca/~msuder/courses/360/lectures/integer-knapsack.html

I think I see a problem with that page.

It states:

  If the weight of B is less than W,
  then Knapsack-Value(B,W) solves at least 2n subproblems.
  Thus, Knapsack-Value(B,W) has exponential running time in the worst case.

But if the weight of B is less than W, then every object in the problem
set can be placed in the knapsack and the problem can be solved
trivially.

Moreover, if W is slighly less than the weight of B, then the problem can
be approached in reverse (minimizing the value of a weight which exceeds
weight(B)-W).

There might be a knapsack problem here, but if so it's not being presented
very clearly.

--
Raul
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