Heilbronn Triangles in the Unit Square

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For points in a square of side length one, find the three points that make the triangle with minimal area. Finding the placement of points that produces the largest such triangle is known as the Heilbronn triangle problem. The point placements within this Demonstration are the best known. Minimal triangles are colored red. All solutions above 12 points are due to Peter Karpov (13,15), Mark Beyleveld (14,16) and Asenath Tal (17-22), with some optimization and exact solutions found by Mathematica.

Contributed by: Ed Pegg Jr (September 2007)
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References

[1] Erich Friedman, The Heilbronn Problem for Squares, stetson.edu/~efriedma/heilbronn/.

[2] Asenath Tal, Algorithms for Heilbronn’s Triangle Problem, 2009, cs.technion.ac.il/users/wwwb/cgi-bin/tr-info.cgi/2009/MSC/MSC-2009-08.

[3] Peter Karpov, Notable Results, 2018, inversed.ru/Ascension.htm#results.

[4] F. Comellas and J. Yebra, New lower bounds for Heilbronn numbers, 2002, combinatorics.org/Volume_9/PDF/v9i1r6.pdf.


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