International Journal of Mathematics and Mathematical Sciences
Volume 2012 (2012), Article ID 613201, 7 pages
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2012/613201
Research Article

Translative Packing of Unit Squares into Squares

Institute of Mathematics and Physics, University of Technology and Life Sciences, Kaliskiego 7, 85-789 Bydgoszcz, Poland

Received 28 March 2012; Revised 24 May 2012; Accepted 24 May 2012

Academic Editor: Naseer Shahzad

Copyright © 2012 Janusz Januszewski. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

Abstract

Every collection of n (arbitrary-oriented) unit squares admits a translative packing into any square of side length 2 . 5 𝑛 .