Re: SOLVING A CUBE
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- Subject: [mg48922] Re: SOLVING A CUBE
- From: Bill Rowe <readnewsciv at earthlink.net>
- Date: Wed, 23 Jun 2004 02:51:31 -0400 (EDT)
- Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com
On 6/22/04 at 5:31 AM, stergios.papadakis at jhuapl.edu (Stergios J. Papadakis) wrote: >Alexey Semenov wrote: >>I would greatly appreciate if you can help me with a link to a >>modeling software program or a formula for calculating the >>following: >>I have piece of rock which equals to 1 cubic meter >>(length/height/width- one meter each side). I need to cut pieces >>that equal to 45cm X 45cm X 3cm (length/width/height). How many of >>these pieces i can get out of a 1 cubic meter stone? >Am I missing something or is it just >IntegerPart[L/l]*IntegerPart[W/w]*IntegerPart[H/h]? This would be correct if all of the small boxes had the same orientation. Consider, you can get 16 of the small boxes in a space 45 x 45 x 48 by laying one 45 x 45 x 3 box on top of the other 15 so that the 3 cm side is perpendicular to the 3 cm sides of the other boxes. Your formula above predicts only 15 can be stored in this space. -- To reply via email subtract one hundred and four