Conway puzzle
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Conway's puzzle is a packing problem using rectangular blocks, named after its inventor, mathematician John Conway. It calls for packing thirteen 1 × 2 × 4 blocks, one 2 × 2 × 2 block, one 1 × 2 × 2 block, and three 1 × 1 × 3 blocks into a 5 × 5 × 5 box.[1]
[edit] Solution
The solution of the Conway puzzle is straightforward when one realizes that the three 1 × 1 × 3 blocks need to be placed so that precisely one of them appears in each 5 × 5 × 1 slice of the cube.
[edit] See also
[edit] References
- ^ Conway Puzzle. Wolfram MathWorld. Retrieved on 2007-03-14.