Word for science of most efficient packing of boxes in to a space?

Question

There is a word to describe the most efficient way of packing items into a space and I forget what it is. I'm looking for more information on this science if anybody can point me in the right direction?

Answer 1

Believe it or not, it's called "the packing problem", and it's part of combinatorial or computational complexity theory. Just google "packing problem" for information on it. Here's a wiki article to get you started: