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Old 11-24-2007, 07:59 PM
jay_shark jay_shark is offline
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Default Re: A Putnam Geometry Problem

Alpha cannot be 1 because we can always find x,y that satisfy the conditions of the problem and such that the area of the rectangle exceeds 1.

We need to find the greatest lowest bound or the infimum of the area of the rectangle which satisfy the conditions stated in the problem .
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