Or, to put it a different way - given a barbecue, a bunch of beef cubes, and a number of cherry tomatoes, how would you arrange the skewers in such a way that a) there's a beef chunk at the beginning and the end of every skewer, b) each skewer is arranged in as even a manner as possible, and c) you use up all the beef and all the tomatoes?

I can meet all of the requirements, without actually meeting the intent of the question -- put all of the tomatoes in the middle of the skewer, evenly divided across all of the skewers (within rounding tolerances).

(NO, that's *not* the real problem... :)

I would hope not. Cherry tomatoes and beef cubes have much different cooking issues -- the tomatoes will get all soft and fall off if you cook 'em too long. I much prefer assembling each skewer w/ a single ingredient, cooking them, then pulling 'em off onto a large platter and mixing it together. (and I'm not a fan of grilled tomatoes ... if you want, slice 'em up, a little salt, pepper and fresh basil, and they make a fine salad on the side)

In reply to Re: Spreading out the elements by jhourcle
in thread Spreading out the elements by Anonymous Monk

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