in reply to Re: "The Skirting Board Problem"
in thread "The Skirting Board Problem"

Ah! I had overlooked second part of your third point, i.e. that the longest wall should be matched to the shortest remaining bit of skirting.

Thanks,

loris


"It took Loris ten minutes to eat a satsuma . . . twenty minutes to get from one end of his branch to the other . . . and an hour to scratch his bottom. But Slow Loris didn't care. He had a secret . . ." (from "Slow Loris" by Alexis Deacon)

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Re^3: "The Skirting Board Problem"
by hipowls (Curate) on Jan 22, 2008 at 14:21 UTC

    Yes, greed can be hard to wrap your mind around;) Good luck with the DIY.