Covering a Square by Small Perimeter Rectangles

نویسندگان

  • Noga Alon
  • Daniel J. Kleitman
چکیده

We show that if the unit square is covered by n rectangles, then at least one must have perimeter at least 4(2m + 1)/(n + m(m + 1)), where m is the largest integer whose square is at most n. This result is exact for n of the form m(m + 1) (or m2).

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • Discrete & Computational Geometry

دوره 1  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 1986