Proposing a new lower bound for n=17 square packing problem

2 pointsposted 10 hours ago
by sam-bee

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sam-bee

10 hours ago

The n=17 square packing problem is the challenge of fitting 17 unit squares into the smallest possible square container.

This post proposes a new lower bound of 4.4811 on the size of the container.

The proof was written by GPT 5.6 Sol.