Pentapipes
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On december 16th we received an e-mail from Martin H Watson with the following request:"Please visit http://www.martinhwatson.co.uk/mydesigns/pentapipes.html and give me your comments." In a following mail, Martin wrote: "I would be delighted for you to use the idea in one of your competitions. I won't add any of this idea to my web site until you have used it for your competition" |
Here's a set of pentapipes: Do you have our
excel file to draw the circuit?
You can download it here. “FlatPoly2“, a programm by Aad van de Wetering, can be of great assistance when trying to find a solution. It can be downloaded at his site .
Make a closed circuit with these 12 pentapipes.
You should try to minimalise the area of the rectangle that contains the closed circuit.
In the example shown the area is 180.
