Timeline for Packing rectangles: Does rotation ever help?
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| Dec 7, 2020 at 0:53 | comment | added | Zsbán Ambrus | @BradyGilg Link to that page in Erich Friedman's packing center is now erich-friedman.github.io/packing/squinsqu | |
| Apr 30, 2019 at 6:06 | comment | added | Brady Gilg | Square packing was my first thought as well, some nice pictures are available at www2.stetson.edu/~efriedma/squinsqu. However on second thought it's apparent that square packing is not relevant to this question. The minimal area rectangle for any collection of equal sized squares is trivially realized simply by stacking them all in a single line. | |
| Apr 28, 2019 at 7:42 | comment | added | Aaron Meyerowitz | However the question allows any rectangle and one can get pack a bunch of unit cubes in a rectangle with no wasted space. | |
| Apr 27, 2019 at 20:51 | history | answered | user36212 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |