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Roundest polyhedra: how well can we bound the edge count of their faces?
By "roundest" I mean having the lowest surface area for the highest volume, given a fixed number of faces $n$. There've been a few questions about them on here (including from me), but I'm ...
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Optimal way to group points in the plane into clusters
Consider a strictly decreasing sequence $d = (d_k)_{k\ge 1}$ of distances in $(0,1)$. Given a constant $C>2$, we say that $d$ has the $C$-grouping property if any finite non-empty subset $S$ (of ...
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Deployment and dispersion in triangular regions
Definitions (from C. Stanley Ogilvy's 'Tomorrow's Math'):
Deployment: To place a specified number $n$ of points (stations) in a region such that the maximum distance of any point in the region from ...
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