Francesco Tisiot is packing for a trip:
People have had to pack luggage for a long time, so this optimization dilemma is far from new. It even has a name: the knapsack problem. It can be applied to a variety of use cases where there is a set of items with a defined weight (space occupied in the luggage in our example) and value (item benefits during holiday) and where the total weight is limited (luggage size).
The end goal is to come up with a set of items that fits within the weight constraint and has the maximum possible value.
Francesco provides us one possible solution to the problem. I like the knapsack problem a lot, but I like the Holyfield problem even more.