Re: Newbie Sorting Question




On 20/06/2005 12:35, Chris Paterson wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I have a block of 100 random numbers adding up to 100 in value. I would
> like to group this data into 4 blocks of approximately equal size and
> value - ie. 25 and 25
>
> Bit stuck. I am looking for what sort of methods I could use to do this
> (I am using VB and Excel97).


Looks like a knapsack problem. You may write a recursive function to solve
this, it's not very difficult.

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