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"Notwithstanding the foregoing the participant grants Sponsor (and its affiliates and subsidiaries) a non-exclusive, worldwide, perpetual, irrevocable, royalty-free, transferable license to use participant’s concept and Entry for and in connection with its business."
So, you are looking for a knapsack-algo? 
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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More like weighted exact cover
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I stand corrected 
So, what are you going to do with your $10.000?
Bastard Programmer from Hell
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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Yea I'm not going to win it. I'm giving it a try though, seems interesting
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Eddy Vluggen wrote: "Notwithstanding the foregoing the participant grants Sponsor (and its affiliates and subsidiaries) a non-exclusive, worldwide, perpetual, irrevocable, royalty-free, transferable license to use participant’s concept and Entry for and in connection with its business."
I would love to see it if there was "the ultimate solution" in the first round of the competition and the author then refusing to enter the second round and not sending in his source code but offering it to them for the money it's worth instead
If the brain were so simple we could understand it, we would be so simple we couldn't. — Lyall Watson
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So, they're basically looking for the equivalent of what a good CNC-lathe algorithm will produce. Why do I get the feeling that they are looking for someone to write the software that will maximize their printing opportunities, so they can take arbitrary designs and look to fit them into the minimum amount of space? And why does their name make me think of chimpanzees?
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Yeah! WTH is Cimpress anyway? As you say: I am somehow reminded of the Planet of the Apes? 
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I'm suspicious these days of such promotions, but I do note that if you read the "about the company" content it claims the founder holds a patent (one of two-hundred they claim the company owns) on optimizing pre-press set-ups in terms of maximizing use of paper ... and that translates into a best-fit algorithm if you ask me.
Still, my nose tells me something doesn't smell right here.
cheers, Bill
«I want to stay as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can't see from the center» Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
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Thanks for sharing that. I actually think the documentation which explains the puzzle is very well written. It's very clear.
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Any plans for leader boards or anything like that?
Also, I could get substantially better times by using CPLEX (I'm using GLPK now, which kind of sucks), but that seems to be against the rules.
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OK own up who reported Chris's sticky message as spam?
never mind seems it was some welsh drunk
You cant outrun the world, but there is no harm in getting a head start
Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time.
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No names, no pack drill.
[Clue: ![Sheep | [baah]](https://codeproject.global.ssl.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/sheep.gif) ]
veni bibi saltavi
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Watch it Nagy, posting revenge porn (pictures of his ex girl friend) is now an offence
You cant outrun the world, but there is no harm in getting a head start
Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time.
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Bergholt Stuttley Johnson wrote: pictures of his ex girl friend
shirley that's ex, current and future!
veni bibi saltavi
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no his ex is now the main course in some swanky restaurant in Soho, his future GF probably hasn't been born
You cant outrun the world, but there is no harm in getting a head start
Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time.
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Or the rubber hasn't set yet, she needs to be blown up after all.
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Am I really seeing the pinned 'house rules' marked as removed? Tell me I'm not that drunk already!
veni bibi saltavi
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No...um...That was me...[^] 
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Kenny joke, ad nasium.
veni bibi saltavi
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To quote from "The Great Race":
You are banished! Banished! Banished!
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This is your second visible step in taking over CP?
Step 1: Get tons of rep.
Step 2: Delete the rules.
Step 3: ???
Step 4: Rule over CP with an iron fist!
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Sander Rossel wrote:
Step 1: Get tons of rep.
Step 2: Delete the rules.
Step 3: ???
Step 4: Rule over CP with an iron fist blow up sheep!
FIFY
You cant outrun the world, but there is no harm in getting a head start
Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time.
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The one that lets out a satisfying bleat once you hit the spot?
That one's just baaaahhh-d
*sudden realization*
...
Maybe I shouldn't have Googled for that on my work laptop... 
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I already moved the servers to my Secret Volcano Base... 
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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