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

Dan,

I'd be interested in seeing what you have.

Did my post of the "n choose k" algorithm help any?

Charles


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dan Bale [mailto:dbale@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Wednesday, September 22, 2004 11:32 AM
> To: RPG400-L@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Solved: odd sort of bit-counter...
> 
> 
> (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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