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One of the popular geometric optimization problems is that of finding the maximum radius r n of n equal and non-overlapping discs to be packed in a unit square. It has been widely explored with a number of surprising results (see e.g. [2]).
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Asano, T., Brass, P., Sasahara, S. (2004). Disc Covering Problem with Application to Digital Halftoning. In: Laganá, A., Gavrilova, M.L., Kumar, V., Mun, Y., Tan, C.J.K., Gervasi, O. (eds) Computational Science and Its Applications – ICCSA 2004. ICCSA 2004. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3045. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-24767-8_2
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