On Wrapping Spheres and Cubes with Rectangular Paper

What is the largest cube or sphere that a given rectangular piece of paper can wrap? This natural problem, which has plagued gift-wrappers everywhere, remains very much unsolved. Here we introduce new upper and lower bounds and consolidate previous results. Though these bounds rarely match, our resu...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Cole, Alex, Demaine, Erik D., Fox-Epstein, Eli
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: Springer-Verlag 2015
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/99999
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3803-5703