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Is there a bicyclic irregular pentagon in integers?

Is there a bicyclic irregular pentagon in integers, i.e. is there a pentagon, the length of each side is integer and unique such that it has a circumcircle and an inner circle as well? If it does ...
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Why does $\sqrt 5$ occur in manageable situations of these scenarios? [closed]

Banach-Mazur distance between $P_5$ and $P_3$ is $d(P_5,P_3)=1+\frac{\sqrt5}2$ where $P_n$ is regular polygon in $n$ sides https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=7968198&tag=...
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'Self-similar and perfect' partitions of planar regions

Definition: A partition of a planar figure into finitely many pieces that are all similar to itself and also mutually non-congruent may be called a self-similar perfect partition. A classical example ...
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Perfect 'cuboiding' of cubes and cuboids

We try to add a bit to ref 2 listed below. In this post, by 'cuboid', we mean only rectangular cuboids - hexahedra with all faces rectangles and adjacent faces meeting only at right angles. A special ...
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Perfect squaring of rectangles

A perfect squaring of a rectangle may be defined as a partition of the rectangle into finitely many squares all of which are mutually non-congruent. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Squaring_the_square ...
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Cubing the cube - as 'perfectly' as possible

Ref: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Squaring_the_square A perfect cubing of a cube is a partition of the cube into some finite number of smaller cubes that are pair-wise non-congruent. The above page ...
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Illumination from visible lattice points with inverse square intensity

It is well known that the number of $\mathbb{Z}^2$ lattice points visible from the origin is $6/\pi^2$, about $61$%. See, e.g., What fraction of the integer lattice can be seen from the origin?. I am ...
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Advice on results for balls on regular $N$-dimensional grids

I have obtained some results regarding balls on regular $N$-dimensional grids. I would like expert opinion on wether the results are significant or interesting enough for (trying to) publish them in a ...
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Lattice packing

Let $\Lambda$ be a lattice in $R^n$ and $R>0$ a real number. Consider the number $N$ of points in $\Lambda$ of norm less than $R$. Let $R$ goes to infinity. What can be said about the asymptotic ...
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On circles and ellipses drawn on an infinite planar square lattice

Consider a plane with a square lattice formed by all points with both coordinates as integers. As can be easily seen, a simple parabola can be found that passes through infinitely many of the square ...
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Is there an exact solution for the number of points within a circle of radius r for an honeycomb lattice?

I want to ask if exists an exact solution for the number of points within a circle of radius r for an honeycomb lattice. I know that it is exist for an square lattice https://mathworld.wolfram.com/...
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What fraction of the integer lattice can be seen from the origin?

Consider the integer lattice points in the positive quadrant $Q$ of $\mathbb{Z}^2$. Say that a point $(x,y)$ of $Q$ is visible from the origin if the segment from $(0,0)$ to $(x,y) \in Q$ passes ...
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Upper bound on the number of lattice points on the intersection of a hyperplane and a sphere

Let $R>0$, $\overrightarrow{\alpha} \in \mathbb{R}^{d}$. Consider the intersection $T$of $RS^{d-1}$ and the hyperplane $\overrightarrow{\alpha} \cdot \overrightarrow{x} = n$. What is the best known ...
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Question arise from kissing number in 2 dimension

I'm considering an extended problem of kissing number in $\mathbb{R}^2$. Suppose I have a given disc $\mathcal{D}$ of radius 1/2 and infinitely many discs all of radius 1/2 and all these discs and ...
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Squares as sum of squares

For which positive integers n is $n^2$ the sum of precisely n smaller positive squares? Of these n x n squares, which can be actually cut into n smaller squares?
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Lattice-cube minimal blocking sets

Let $C_d(n)$ be the lattice cube consisting of the $n^d$ points with each of its $d$ coorindates in $\lbrace 1,2,\ldots,n \rbrace$. Define a blocking set for a lattice cube to be a set of points in ...
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Tiling a square with rectangles

Is it possible to completely tile a square with different rectangles of integer sides but all with the same area? The original problem, not requiring integer sides for rectangles, was proposed by Joe ...
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Dissecting Ramanujan´s Cuboid: 1729 = 19 x 13 x 7

Consider the cuboid of dimensions 19 x 13 x 7 whose volume is 1729, the Hardy-Ramanujan number. What is the least number of smaller cuboids into which it can be dissected so that the resulting pieces ...
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Lattice points on the boundary of an ellipse

How many points of the integer lattice ${\mathbb Z}^2$ can an axis-parallel ellipse of radius $r$ contain on its boundary? (that is, we consider ${\mathbb Z}^2$ as lying in ${\mathbb R}^2$). ...
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Orthonormal bases of R^3 with components lying in the golden field

Greg Egan proved an interesting theorem about unit vectors in $\mathbb{R}^3$ whose components actually lie in the 'golden field' $\mathbb{Q}[\sqrt{5}]$. He found it in our studies of twin dodecahedra:...
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Consecutive Integer Squared Square

Is it possible to construct a squared square out of consecutive integer squares? Be it 1,2,3,...n or k,k+1,k+2,...n.
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The intersection of a circle and a rank 3 subgroup of the plane

Let $A$ be a rank 3 subgroup of the Euclidean plane, i.e. $A = \mathbb{Z} v_1 + \mathbb{Z} v_2 + \mathbb{Z} v_3$, where $v_1, v_2, v_3 \in \mathbb{R}^2$ are three $\mathbb{Q}$-linearly independent ...
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Regular lattice polygons

Suppose I want to construct an $N$-gon in the plane whose vertices are integer lattice points, and which is close to a regular $N$-gon (which means, the ratio of longest to the shortest side is within ...