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This article is from the Puzzles FAQ, by Chris Cole chris@questrel.questrel.com and Matthew Daly mwdaly@pobox.com with numerous contributions by others.

205 geometry/tiling/scaling.p


A given rectangle can be entirely covered (i.e. concealed) by an
appropriate arrangement of 25 disks of unit radius.

Can the same rectangle be covered by 100 disks of 1/2 unit radius?

geometry/tiling/scaling.s

Yes. The same configuration of circles, when every distance is reduced
by half (including the diameters), will cover a similar rectangle whose
sides are one half of the original one. The original rectangle is the
union of four such rectangles.

 

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