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Old 08-28-2007, 04:52 PM
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Default Re: A Math Problem (NP Complete?)

This looks like a minor variant on the knapsack problem, which I'm pretty sure is indeed NP complete. (EDIT: There's almost certainly some subtlety here, but with that name I bet there's a lot of literature out there that you can read up on.)
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