Re: Solved: odd sort of bit-counter...

It is easy to write an ineficient solution to the "subset sum problem" that 
works great for small numbers, but it becomes unusuable as the number of items 
grows.

If somebody has found a better solution, it will have incredible implicances, 
even amerit a "Nobel Price"
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El Wednesday 22 September 2004 12:31, Dan Bale escribió:
> (cross posted to RPG400-L, midrange-L, and MI400)
> 
> For those who were following this thread for the technical aspects, I have a
> workable solution for the "subset sum problem" written in RPG.  If anyone is
> interested, I would be happy to share the code for peer review.  If I get a
> response to this on the RPG400 list, I'll post it there.  Otherwise, I'll
> just send it directly to those who request it.  (There's 73 statements in
> the source member.)
> 
> Thanks to all for some great ideas!
> 
> BTW, as far as the business case for this type of solution is concerned,
> there is, in fact, no matching detail between the two amount lists.  What
> happens is that the A/R people enter a payment into Mapics (DB).  Mapics, by
> default, applies the payment to many invoices behind the scenes.  By the
> time it is posted, we lose the fact that a total payment of x dollars was
> made; we have only all of these smaller amounts applied to different
> invoices.  The A/R people don't normally concern themselves with the
> invoices that the payments are applied to, so that is why I'll get a list
> that I can't duplicate verbatim from the information stored in Mapics.
> 
> BTW, this is not an unusual problem with Mapics DB.  You should see the
> hoops I have to go through to print a month-end summary of the A/R Invoice
> Register.
> 
> db
> 
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