Patrick Deuster wrote:
> ...
> The splitting the loot problem is actually a problem known as the 
> "Knapsack problem" or the "Subset sum problem".
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subset_sum_problem
I don't believe that this problem is equivalent to the subset sum 
problem, because all of the numbers involved are positive.  Different 
animal.

Luke Blanshard