Journal of the Mathematics Council of the Alberta Teachers’ Association
Volume 33 Issue 3, December 1996
15 – 18
Packing Boxes with N-tetracubes
Andris Cibulis
With the popularity of the video game Tetris, most people are aware of the five connected shapes fonned of four unit squares joined edge-to-edge. They are called the 1-, L-, N-, 0- and T-tetrominoes, after the letter of the alphabet whose shapes they resemble. They form a subclass of the polyominoes, a favorite topic in research and recreational mathematics founded by Solomon Golomb.
