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Old 06-22-2007, 02:51 AM
borisp borisp is offline
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Default Re: Geometry problem

The sides of the R_i that are integers can either be horizontal or vertical, and you don't know ahead of time how they are organized. So a side of R is not necessarily the sum of integers, which is essentially why the problem is nontrivial.
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