How to arrange chocolates in a box (mathematically)? - Micmaths
Eat more chocolate thanks to math!
Sources and readings:
A study (in English but with many diagrams) summarizing the state of knowledge in 2009: https://www.combinatorics.org/files/S...
The Wikipedia page for the problem: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empilem...
Variations:
You will find a list of several dozen variations here: https://erich-friedman.github.io/pack...
Some examples:
Circles in a square box: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circle_...
Circles in a round box: https://web.archive.org/web/202003181...
Circles in an equilateral triangle: https://www.combinatorics.org/ojs/ind...
Squares in a round box: https://erich-friedman.github.io/pack...
On behavior at infinity
The 1975 article by Erdős and Graham: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science...
The 2020 article by Chung and Graham: https://www.math.ucsd.edu/~fan/wp/spa...
Illustrations: Chloé Bouchaour / chloescope_
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