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A smuggler in the mountainous region of Profitania has n items in his cellar. If he sells an item i across the border, he makes a profit pi. However, the smuggler’s trade union only allows him to carry knapsacks with a maximum weight of M. If item i has weight wi, which of the items should he pack into the knapsack to maximize the profit from his next trip?
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Sanders, P., Mehlhorn, K., Dietzfelbinger, M., Dementiev, R. (2019). Generic Approaches to Optimization. In: Sequential and Parallel Algorithms and Data Structures. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-25209-0_12
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