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Covering A Circle (Posted on 2005-10-21)

A circle of unit radius is completely covered by three identical squares. What is the smallest size of the squares?

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overlap?

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Can the squares overlap or should they not?

If they can the squares will be smaller. In my opinion both cases are interesting.

Posted by Jer on 2005-10-21 12:25:25

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