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#1 2011-10-02 12:25:38
- MathsIsFun
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Unit squares packed inside the smallest known square
This is interesting: http://www2.stetson.edu/~efriedma/squinsqu/
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#2 2011-10-02 16:56:03
- bobbym
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Re: Unit squares packed inside the smallest known square
Hi MathsIsFun;
Thanks for providing that! There is a link to his paper at the bottom. Also, it will eventually take you to the Electronic journal of combinatorics.
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#3 2011-10-04 09:46:13
- John E. Franklin
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Re: Unit squares packed inside the smallest known square
When I worked in produce, the oranges came 72 or 113 in a box.
I used to sift thru IEEE journals from the 1920's to the present on logic circuits, talking about combinatorics.
Once I ran into a neat algorithm using XOR gates that I could not comprehend though.
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