Problem 2036. Santa's Cards

Created by Richard Zapor

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This Challenge is inspired by the <a href = "http://www.kaggle.com/c/packing-santas-sleigh">Packing Santa's Sleigh</a> contest at kaggle that runs until January 26, 2014. Will Elfonso win another kaggle contest? The kaggle contest is a 3-D fitting/optimization.This Challenge is to place Santa Cards in a minimum area given a board width(columns) and a set of N cards of (rows,columns). Cards can not be rotated.Input: Card_Array, W ; Card_Array(N,2) and W=width of M arrayOutput: M ; An X by W array of values 0:N, 0 is unused spaceScoring: Number of rows required to place all cardsExample:[2 2;3 3;1 2], 5M<pre class="language-matlab">1 1 2 2 2
1 1 2 2 2
3 3 2 2 2
</pre>Scores a 3, number of rowsContest Results:
Alfonso put in a tremendous 40,000 point reduction in the last days and appeared unsurpassable. However, a pair of Polish Professors in Mathematics and Computer Science, Marek and Cygan, submitted an astounding further 34,000 point improvement for the win. Alfonso won the Matlab category prize.

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Alfonso Nieto-Castanon on 11 Dec 2013

and thanks for the heads-up :)

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James on 13 Dec 2013

Very ugly code, but it works...

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James on 13 Dec 2013

I don't feel too bad about hard coding my initial solution now, although I was hoping to see another super clever algorithm from you. ;-)

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