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Optimal "Generalization" of Polylines
This question is inspired by a lossy compression technique for polylines, namely to identify a subset of the points of polyline $\mathcal{P}$, whose removal yields a polyline $\mathcal{Q}$ within a ...
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Minimum tiling of a rectangle by squares
Given the $n\times m$ rectangle, I want to compute the minimum number of integer-sided squares needed to tile it (possibly of different sizes).
Is there an efficient way to calculate this?