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We show that a large square of sidelength $x$ can be packed by unit squares in a manner so that the wasted space $W(x) = O(x^{3/5})$.

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2026-02-03 Rory McClenagan

In their 2009 note: \emph{Packing equal squares into a large square}, Chung and Graham proved that the uncovered area of a large square of side length $x$ is $O\left(x^{(3+\sqrt{2})/7}\log x\right)$ after maximum number of non-overlapping…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-04-12 Shuang Wang , Tian Dong , Jiamin Li

We consider the problem of packing a large square with nonoverlapping unit squares. Let $W(x)$ be the minimum wasted area when a large square of side length $x$ is packed with unit squares. In Roth and Vaughan's paper that proves the lower…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Hong Duc Bui

In this paper, we show an improved bound and new algorithm for the online square-into-square packing problem. This two-dimensional packing problem involves packing an online sequence of squares into a unit square container without any two…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2014-01-23 Brian Brubach

Given a point set $S=\{s_1,\ldots , s_n\}$ in the unit square $U=[0,1]^2$, an anchored square packing is a set of $n$ interior-disjoint empty squares in $U$ such that $s_i$ is a corner of the $i$th square. The reach $R(S)$ of $S$ is the set…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2018-06-26 Hugo A. Akitaya , Matthew D. Jones , David Stalfa , Csaba D. Tóth

Let $S$ be a set of $n$ points in the unit square $[0,1]^2$, one of which is the origin. We construct $n$ pairwise interior-disjoint axis-aligned empty rectangles such that the lower left corner of each rectangle is a point in $S$, and the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2012-07-31 Adrian Dumitrescu , Csaba D. Tóth

Let $s(n)$ be the side length of the smallest square into which $n$ non-overlapping unit squares can be packed. In 2010, the author showed that $s(13)=4$ and $s(46)=7$. Together with the result $s(6)=3$ by Keaney and Shiu, these results…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-06-14 Wolfram Bentz

For points $p_1,\ldots , p_n$ in the unit square $[0,1]^2$, an \emph{anchored rectangle packing} consists of interior-disjoint axis-aligned empty rectangles $r_1,\ldots , r_n\subseteq [0,1]^2$ such that point $p_i$ is a corner of the…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2016-03-02 Kevin Balas , Adrian Dumitrescu , Csaba D. Tóth

Given a set of squares and a strip of bounded width and infinite height, we consider a square strip packaging problem, which we call the square independent packing problem (SIPP), to minimize the strip height so that all the squares are…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2023-07-14 Wei Wu , Hiroki Numaguchi , Yannan Hu , Mutsunori Yagiura

We describe a new numerical procedure for generating dense packings of disks and spheres inside various geometric shapes. We believe that in some of the smaller cases, these packings are in fact optimal. When applied to the previously…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 David W. Boll , Jerry Donovan , Ronald L. Graham , Boris D. Lubachevsky

In 1967, Moon and Moser proved a tight bound on the critical density of squares in squares: any set of squares with a total area of at most 1/2 can be packed into a unit square, which is tight. The proof requires full knowledge of the set,…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2017-01-03 Sándor P. Fekete , Hella-Franziska Hoffmann

We propose a new class of space-filling designs called rotated sphere packing designs for computer experiments. The approach starts from the asymptotically optimal positioning of identical balls that covers the unit cube. Properly scaled,…

Methodology · Statistics 2016-08-15 Xu He

It is known that $\sum\limits_{i =1}^\infty {1/ i^2}={\pi^2/6}$. Meir and Moser asked what is the smallest $\epsilon$ such that all the squares of sides of length $1$, $1/2$, $1/3$, $\ldots$ can be packed into a rectangle of area…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-12-09 Antal Joós

In this paper using the concept of the extended Hamming code we give a construction for dense packing of points at distance at least one in such unit cubes which dimension are a power of two.

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2009-10-07 Á. G. Horváth

The well-known problem stated by A. Meir and L. Moser consists in tiling the unit square with rectangles (details), whose side lengths equal $1/n\times 1/(n+1)$, where indices~$n$ range from 1 to infinity. Recently, Terence Tao has proved…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-07-24 A. D. Kislovskiy , E. Yu. Lerner , I. A. Senkevich

Higher-dimensional orthogonal packing problems have a wide range of practical applications, including packing, cutting, and scheduling. Previous efforts for exact algorithms have been unable to avoid structural problems that appear for…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Sandor P. Fekete , Joerg Schepers

We analyze the problem of packing squares in an online fashion: Given a semi-infinite strip of width 1 and an unknown sequence of squares of side length in [0,1] that arrive from above, one at a time. The objective is to pack these items as…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2010-10-22 Sandor P. Fekete , Tom Kamphans , Nils Schweer

In this paper we present a theoretical analysis of the deterministic on-line {\em Sum of Squares} algorithm ($SS$) for bin packing introduced and studied experimentally in \cite{CJK99}, along with several new variants. $SS$ is applicable to…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Janos Csirik , David S. Johnson , Claire Kenyon , James B. Orlin , Peter W. Shor , Richard R. Weber

In this paper we present a new algorithm for a layout optimization problem: this concerns the placement of weighted polygons inside a circular container, the two objectives being to minimize imbalance of mass and to minimize the radius of…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2008-09-30 Yi-Chun Xu , Ren-Bin Xiao , Martyn Amos

We study dense packings of a large number of congruent non-overlapping circles inside a square by looking for configurations which maximize the packing density, defined as the ratio between the area occupied by the disks and the area of the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2022-05-23 Paolo Amore , Tenoch Morales
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