| Title: | Mathematics at DEC |
| Moderator: | RUSURE::EDP |
| Created: | Mon Feb 03 1986 |
| Last Modified: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Number of topics: | 2083 |
| Total number of notes: | 14613 |
Proposed by Richard Blecksmith and John Selfridge, Northern Illinois
University, DeKalb.
Show how to pack 16 squares of sides 1, 2, ..., 16 into a square of
side 39 without overlapping.
| T.R | Title | User | Personal Name | Date | Lines |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1903.1 | RUSURE::EDP | Always mount a scratch monkey. | Fri Aug 11 1995 17:21 | 49 | |
Here's one of the published solutions, drawn as if character cells were
square.
+--------------+---------+-------------+
| | | |
| | | |
| | | |
| | | |
| | 10 | |
| | | |
| | | 14 |
| 15 | | |
| | | |
| +-----+---+ |
| | | | |
| | | 4 | |
| | 6 | | |
| | +---++------------+
+-------+------+ | + |
| | ++-+--+ 5 | |
| | ||2| | | |
| | |+-+ 3| | |
| | 7 | ++--+----+ |
| 8 | | | | |
| | | | | 13 |
| +------+ | | |
+-------+-------+| 9 | |
| || | |
| || | |
| || | |
| || ++-----------+ <- The box there is 1.
| ++--------++ | Unmarked regions are empty.
| | | |
| | | |
| 16 | | |
| | | |
| | | |
| | 11 | 12 |
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| | | |
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+---------------+----------+-----------+
-- edp
Public key fingerprint: 8e ad 63 61 ba 0c 26 86 32 0a 7d 28 db e7 6f 75
To find PGP, read note 2688.4 in Humane::IBMPC_Shareware.
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| 1903.2 | HANNAH::OSMAN | see HANNAH::IGLOO$:[OSMAN]ERIC.VT240 | Fri Aug 11 1995 19:34 | 7 | |
That might make a nice woodworking project. Perhaps in the real wood version, if the smallest squares are omitted, the puzzle would still be difficult. /Eric | |||||