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The Circle Covering Puzzle
Completely cover the orange shape with the white disks. The number of disks determines the size of each shape.
Contributed by:
Ed Pegg Jr
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Based in part on Erich's Packing Center: Covering
http://www.stetson.edu/~efriedma/packing.html
.
RELATED LINKS
Disk Covering Problem
(
Wolfram
MathWorld
)
Five Disks Problem
(
Wolfram
MathWorld
)
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The Circle Covering Puzzle
" from
the Wolfram Demonstrations Project
http://demonstrations.wolfram.com/TheCircleCoveringPuzzle/
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