Search for developments of a box having multiple ways of folding by SAT solver
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A polyomino is called a development if it can make a box by folding edges of unit squares forming the polyomino. It is known that there are developments that can fold into a box (or boxes) in multiple ways. In this work, we conducted a computer search for finding such developments by using a SAT solver. As a result, we found thousands of such developments including a polyomino of area 52 that can fold into a box of size 1 × 2 × 8 in five different ways.
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