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Packing Ferrers Shapes
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ferrersshapesdistinctrectangleansweringcannotcoverexactly
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Answering a question of Wilf, we show that if $n$ is sufficiently large, then one cannot cover an $n \times p(n)$ rectangle using each of the $p(n)$ distinct Ferrers shapes of size $n$ exactly once. Moreover, the maximum number of pairwise distinct, non-overlapping Ferrers shapes that can be packed in such a rectangle is only $\Theta(p(n)/ \log n).$
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