Some puzzles about boxes

Win-Vector Blog 2013-12-20

Summary:

This article is a break from data-science, and is instead about the kind of problem you can try on the train. It is inspired by the problems in Bollobas’s “The art of mathematics.” One of the many irritating things about airlines is the fact that the cary-on bag restrictions are often stated as “your maximum […]

Link:

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Statistics and Visualization » Win-Vector Blog

Tags:

mathematics expository writing boxes cauchy surface area formula linear length puzzle quermassintegral

Authors:

John Mount

Date tagged:

12/20/2013, 07:12

Date published:

09/28/2013, 15:17