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Impressive.

Once you have the minimum height, calculating the actual partition is equivalent to the text justification problem, with each category being a word, its length being the word's length, and the minimum height being the line length. This has been done before.

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Re: Puzzle: need a more general algorithm
by Abigail-II (Bishop) on Jul 09, 2002 at 16:48 UTC
    Actually, once you know the height that will work, a simple greedy algorithm will do (stuff as much as you can in the first column, then the next, and the next, etc). After all, it was given that any solution would do, not the prettiest or something like that.

    Abigail