Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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414824 | Computational Geometry | 2011 | 8 Pages |
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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Authors
Stefan Hougardy,