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#1 2007-12-26 02:59:51
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Rectangles and optimization! (Hard)
By counting carefully it can be seen that a rectangular grid measuring 3 by 2 contains eighteen rectangles.
Although there exists no rectangular grid that contains exactly two million rectangles, find, using an algebraic method, the area of the grid with the nearest solution.
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#2 2007-12-26 08:17:28
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Re: Rectangles and optimization! (Hard)
Fun fact: The answer is palindromic.
Why did the vector cross the road?
It wanted to be normal.
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