Parallel packing a square with isosceles right triangles and equilateral triangles
Combinatorics
2026-05-26 v2
Abstract
Suppose that is a unit square. Let (resp. ) be an isosceles right triangle (resp. an equilateral triangle). We prove that any collection of triangles homothetic to (resp. ), whose total area does not exceed (resp. ), can be parallel packed into . These upper bounds are tight.
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@article{arxiv.2605.09406,
title = {Parallel packing a square with isosceles right triangles and equilateral triangles},
author = {Chen-Yang Su},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2605.09406},
year = {2026}
}