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    The students at BITS Goa want a swimming pool, but the administration cites maintenance costs and wants to make the campus greener. To resolve this, a first year student proposed having the administration plant an infinite number of trees around campus, with each tree having a non-zero radius around it where no other trees would be planted. The question is whether the students could find space for a rectangular swimming pool, given the infinite trees are planted this way and the campus is infinitely large.

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    The students at BITS Goa want a swimming pool, but the administration cites maintenance costs and wants to make the campus greener. To resolve this, a first year student proposed having the administration plant an infinite number of trees around campus, with each tree having a non-zero radius around it where no other trees would be planted. The question is whether the students could find space for a rectangular swimming pool, given the infinite trees are planted this way and the campus is infinitely large.

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    The students at BITS Goa want a swimming pool, but the administration cites maintenance costs and wants to make the campus greener. To resolve this, a first year student proposed having the administration plant an infinite number of trees around campus, with each tree having a non-zero radius around it where no other trees would be planted. The question is whether the students could find space for a rectangular swimming pool, given the infinite trees are planted this way and the campus is infinitely large.

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    Problem of the Week

    The students of BITS Goa would like to have a swimming pool on campus. The Administration of
    BITS Goa is not so keen and cites maintanence as reason. The Administration of BITS Goa is more
    keen on making the campus more green. As debates raged on about the swimming pool , a first year
    student, amchandran proposed a method to resolve the !uestion.
    The administration plants infinte trees around the campus. "or each tree, they declare a non#$ero
    radius where they will not plant any more trees.
    %g. "or a particular tree T, if the non#$ero radius is &. "or an area of '&(pi around the tree they wont
    plant any more trees.
    )ote * The radius can be infintesimaly small but not $ero.
    The swimming pool must be a rectangular plot of + unit.
    Assume that BITS Goa is infinitely large.
    The administration does not wish for a swimming pool. Their aim is to plant trees such that students
    cannot find the space. ,Their aim is not to plant ma-imum trees. BITS Goa is infinitely big and they
    are planting infinite trees anyway..
    /an the students find space for the swimming pool0
    1ill BITS Goa finally get a swimming pool0
    &2 points.
    Deadline : 30
    th
    March
    Send solutions by mail to ram.gunnerforever3gmail.com
    4artial progress is also encouraged.
    amchandran
    5&6+7'28'8

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