Cube packing records fall: Haowei Lin beats Erich Friedman's 1998 bounds
snikolov · x · 2026-10-08
Erich Friedman's 'Cubes in Cubes' page tracks the smallest known cube side s that packs n unit cubes. In July 2026, Haowei Lin improved several long-standing records from 1998, e.g. n=12 from 2.956+ to 2.93277+ and n=11 dramatically from 3.707+ to 2.88295+. Packing problems are classics of combinatorial search, and new bounds usually signal better search methods or compute.
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