Article ID Journal Published Year Pages File Type
414824 Computational Geometry 2011 8 Pages PDF
Abstract

We prove that every set of squares with total area 1 can be packed into a rectangle of area at most 2867/2048=1.399…2867/2048=1.399… . This improves on the previous best bound of 1.53. Also, our proof yields a linear time algorithm for finding such a packing.

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