Alcuin's Propositiones de Civitatibus: the Earliest Packing Problems
Abstract
We consider three problems about cities from Alcuin'sPropositiones ad acuendos juvenes. These problems can be considered as the earliest packing problems difficult also for modern state-of-the-art packing algorithms. We discuss the Alcuin's solutions and give the known (to the author) best solutions to these problems.
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