A sillier approach to square packing: 3.877 found only ~3.75% of the time for 11 squares
CatAstro_Piyush · x · 2026-10-08
Yohei Nakajima shares a brute-force-ish way to solve square packing: for 11 squares, the search finds the 3.877 packing about 3.75% of the time — a fun demo of attacking a classic geometric optimization problem with raw search.
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