Minimal tilings of a unit square

DOI10.4169/COLLEGE.MATH.J.48.4.242MaRDI QIDQ4581673zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Iwan Praton

Publication date 20 August 2018

Published in The College Mathematics Journal (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1607.00660

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Combinatorial aspects of tessellation and tiling problems (05B45) Tilings in (2) dimensions (aspects of discrete geometry) (52C20) Geometry education (97G99) Combinatorics (educational aspects) (97K20)

Abstract: Tile the unit square with $n$ small squares. We determine the minimum of the sum of the side lengths of the $n$ small squares, where the minimum is taken over all tilings of the unit square with $n$ squares.

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