The Secret History of Shipping Pallets

From Boing Boing: Ikea optimized one of its products, a mug, three times, for pallet packing, ending up with a product that cost 60% less to ship -- and shortly after abandoned pallets altogether in favor of the "Optiledge." It's a story about the knapsack problem, a P=NP kind of secr

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