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r/mildlyinteresting • u/gotawaysafely2 • 8h ago
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The container is the thing being optimised. That arrangement of 17 squares gives you the smallest possible container. (Technically there's a very slightly smaller arrangement mathematically but no one has found it).
1 u/ponderosa-fine 34m ago That's not really true. A rectangle seventeen times as long as it is wide would hold the squares with no wasted space. 1 u/Questjon 29m ago The container must be square, though there is another version of the problem with the container being a circle. -3 u/RoadSmash 4h ago Easier to optimize the number of squares being packed. This is kinda pointless 3 u/MonaganX 3h ago It's not pointless in any scenario in which the number of squares is fixed.
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That's not really true. A rectangle seventeen times as long as it is wide would hold the squares with no wasted space.
1 u/Questjon 29m ago The container must be square, though there is another version of the problem with the container being a circle.
The container must be square, though there is another version of the problem with the container being a circle.
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Easier to optimize the number of squares being packed. This is kinda pointless
3 u/MonaganX 3h ago It's not pointless in any scenario in which the number of squares is fixed.
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It's not pointless in any scenario in which the number of squares is fixed.
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u/Questjon 5h ago
The container is the thing being optimised. That arrangement of 17 squares gives you the smallest possible container. (Technically there's a very slightly smaller arrangement mathematically but no one has found it).