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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?

See The Solution Submitted by Brian Smith

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re: overlap solution

| Comment 4 of 12 |

(In reply to overlap solution by Jer)

this solution is incorrect. A slight improvement is evident if the corners of the square are slightly outside of the circle, but I don't have time to work this out now.

Posted by Jer on 2005-10-21 13:08:16

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