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Al Zimmermann's Son of Darts

There's about 2 months left in Al Zimmermann's Son of Darts programming contest, and I'd like to improve my standing (currently in the 60s) to something more respectable. I'd like to get some ideas from the great community of stackoverflow on how best to approach this problem. The contest problem is known as the Global Postage Stamp Pro...

How can I improve this algorithm for solving a modified Postage Stamp problem?

Son of Darts Problem was a contest on Al Zimmermann's Programming Contests that ended on 20 Jun 2010 : Suppose that you have a dartboard that is divided into R regions. Each dartboard region has a positive integer value associated with it. Further suppose that you have D darts and that you throw each of them at the dartboard. Each...