Complexity of rectangular pallet loading
Given positive integer dimensions and an integer in binary, decide whether interior-disjoint rectangles fit inside an rectangle. Each small rectangle may use either axis-parallel orientation. Determine the complexity in terms of the compact input length.
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Problem statement
Given positive integer dimensions and an integer in binary, decide whether interior-disjoint rectangles fit inside an rectangle. Each small rectangle may use either axis-parallel orientation. Determine the complexity in terms of the compact input length.
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Editorial selection inspected on 9 September 2026. Current research status has not been independently reassessed; consult the original source and subsequent literature.
- [1]The Open Problems Project — Computational geometry: Complexity of rectangular pallet loading (inspected 2026-09-09) link
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