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Optimal result (Posted on 2018-06-04)

A stick of length L is broken into n equal parts.

What is the maximal product of their lengths?

No Solution Yet Submitted by Ady TZIDON

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What nobody has said explicitly

Comment 11 of 11 |

Just to be clear, in almost every case we want the n equal pieces to be as close as possible to length e

Posted by Steve Herman on 2018-06-07 15:13:21

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