Author: Stan Eisenstat
Subject: Re: [Cs223] Clarification of No Flags
Date: Tuesday, 11 Feb 2020, 14:28:02

    > Message Posted By: Unknown
    >
    > If no flags are given, what heuristic should we use to compute the number
    > of bins needed to store the set of items?
    > i.e. if we received
    > ./Binpack 12 4 5 4 3 4 1 8 2

As stated in the specification,

  [-opt | -ff | -bf | -ffd | -bfd]* is a sequence of ZERO OR MORE flags, each
    either -opt or -ff or -bf or -ffd or -bfd.

(emphasis added).  Thus no flags means that no
assignments are computed.

--Stan-