De Bruijn's theorem
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De Bruijn's theorem
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In a 1969 paper, Dutch mathematician Nicolaas Govert de Bruijn proved several results about packing congruent rectangular bricks into larger rectangular boxes, in such a way that no space is left over. One of these results is now known as de Bruijn's theorem. According to this theorem, a "harmonic brick" can only be packed into a box whose dimensions are multiples of the brick's dimensions.
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On packing congruent rectangular bricks (of any dimension) into larger rectangular boxes
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