Description In order to build a ship to travel to Eindhoven, The Netherlands, various sheet metal parts have to be cut from rectangular pieces of sheet metal. Each part is a convex polygon with at most 8 vertices. Each rectangular piece of sheet meta…
Problem A Communist regime is trying to redistribute wealth in a village. They have have decided to sit everyone around a circular table. First, everyone has converted all of their properties to coins of equal value, such that the total number of coi…
Description We are given a figure consisting of only horizontal and vertical line segments. Our goal is to count the number of all different rectangles formed by these segments. As an example, the number of rectangles in the Figures 1 and 2 are 5 and…
Description In a wireless network with multiple transmitters sending on the same frequencies, it is often a requirement that signals don't overlap, or at least that they don't conflict. One way of accomplishing this is to restrict a transmitter's cov…