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+# Knapsack problem
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+This directory contains the **Python 3.7.4** source code used to do Homework 2.
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+The only package required to run this program is [questionary](https://github.com/tmbo/questionary), which provides a very nice command line interface.
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+Run `main.py` to execute the program.