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blackle on June 4, 2024 | parent | context | favorite | on: Show HN: Allocate poker chips optimally with mixed...

I've noticed that adding a colour can make it go from having a solution to not having a solution. Maybe it should try to come up with a solution using fewer colours in that case, since it's not obvious that manually removing a colour will lead to a solution.

jstrieb on June 4, 2024 [–]

That's a good observation - the UI is a very thin wrapper around the optimizer.

One fix would be changing the minimum number of chips per color under "advanced options > requirements" to 0.

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