A New Take on Classic 'Pen Problems'
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2019-12-13 v1
Abstract
In this article we generalize the classic "farm pen" optimization problem from a first course in calculus in a handful of different ways. We describe the solution to an -dimensional rectangular variant, and then study the situation when the pens are either regular polygons or platonic solids.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1912.05646,
title = {A New Take on Classic 'Pen Problems'},
author = {David A. Nash},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1912.05646},
year = {2019}
}
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11 pages, 4 figures